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

[Bruno Jimenez]

On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 16:37 -0700, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott <cwabbott0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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. :)
> >
> > Yeah, and it also won't make sense to do it until we can get the NIR
> > optimizations up to par with the GLSL ones so that we can disable all
> > the GLSL ones after linking and not get a regression. This would
> > involve porting all the GLSL optimizations to NIR, which now that I
> > think about it actually seems like a quite doable GSoC project -- it's
> > a pretty well-defined task and there are lots of little optimizations
> > to translate so it's easy to make progress, although porting all of
> > them over might be too much for one summer.
> 
> Yeah, grabbing a handful of optimizations and porting them seems like
> a good GSoC project to me.  There's also the NIR checklist which
> people could grab stuff off of.

Out of curiosity, I know that NIR can be used with the intel drivers
but, is there a way to test it with gallium?

- Bruno

> --Jason
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