[Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

[Matt Turner]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas.
>
>  - GLSL linking in NIR
>      - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive
> things on GLSL IR

Ian said this should wait until everything is using NIR so that we
don't have two linkers. :)

>  - SSA in the i965/fs backend, and an SSA-based register allocator

Jason thought this was too hard as a GSoC project. Probably right.

>  - Improve instruction scheduling in i965 (Nouveau has this on the
> Wiki as well. Maybe potential for code reuse)

This still seems like a good GSoC-worthy project.