[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] gallium: build virgl by default.

[Marek Olšák]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 November 2015 at 07:57, Albert Freeman <albertwdfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23 November 2015 at 03:17, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>> No reason not to build this, it has no external
>>>> requirements at the moment.
>>>
>>> Not that I object, but what's the policy around these defaults? Should
>>> we also add nouveau? freedreno? vc4?
>>>
> Yes please.
>
> For those wondering about radeonsi, i915g or ilo. The first one has
> llvm dependency which we cannot enforce onto the unaware user. With
> the latter two - while I cannot comment on their quality/completeness,
> they see almost no action (dev. wise) plus having them will bring
> serious classic vs gallium confusion.

r300 also depends on LLVM. It can be worked around by modifying
configure.ac, but you can't build r300 without llvm on x86 by default.
(the reason is that some r300 IGPs don't have vertex shaders and draw
is used instead, which is terribly slow without llvm)

Marek