[Mesa-dev] Introducing OpenSWR: High performance software rasterizer

[Emil Velikov]

Hi Tim,

I have no objections against getting this merged, although here are a
couple of things that should be sorted. Some of these are just
reiteration from others:

 - First and foremost - please base your work against master. Mesa,
alike most other open-source projects, tries to keep features out of
bugfix releases. As such basing things against 11.0 is not suitable.

 - Further combinatorial explosion of build configurations - with
internal/external core, swr-arch, etc. Some of these can (should?) be
nuked, although further comments will follow as patch(es) hit the
mailing list.

 - Using llvm's C++ interface, building against multiple LLVM
versions. If openswr only supports only limited versions of llvm, then
the build should bail out accordingly - more comments/suggestions as
patch(es) hit the ML.

 - Will patches porting core openswr functionality from the internal
tree be part of the public discussions ? The VMWare people have done a
great thing trying to keep things open, and people have, on the rare
occasion, found nitpicks in their patches.

 - And last but not least - please split patches sensibly, for your
submission and further work). The "Initial public Mesa+SWR" touches
files in quite a few different places.

Mildly related - I'll be resending/merging a series with reworks
things in src/gallium/auxiliary/target-helpers/ so things might clash
as you rebase your work.

Thanks
Emil