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

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Watry <awatry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Marek has a patch that makes st/mesa actually do some compilation when
linking shaders:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa/log/?h=precompile

However drivers might still defer it until later (I know that nouveau
does). AFAIK only intel and vc4 have done anything with shader-db, and
I'm not entirely sure how the vc4 stats were retrieved.

It has been on my todo list to make it all work for nouveau, but it's
never made it to the top.

  -ilia