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

[Aaron Watry]

On a related note,

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Bruno Jimenez <brunojimen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> i965 is where it's actively tested and known to be working.  However,
> Eric Anholt has a NIR -> TGSI pass so it could be hacked up to work
> with gallium.
>


On a related note,

Has anyone ported shader-db over to working on R600/RadeonSI/<anything
non-intel>?  I've been meaning to take a look at the NIR->TGSI pass and see
if there's an easy way to hook it up to the radeon drivers, but I wanted to
be able to get shader-db up and running on that hardware first so that we
could get some before/after numbers (I'm assuming that R600 w/o SB will be
the main radeon driver that benefits, but I'd love to be proven wrong).

--Aaron


> --Jason
>
> > - Bruno
> >
> >> --Jason
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