[Mesa-dev] cairo as state tracker

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<enrico.weigelt at gr13.net> wrote:
> On 07.08.2016 12:50, Marek Olšák wrote:
>
>> It would mainly be a futile task if it had to compete with their
>> official Mesa driver.
>
> Not quite. Would give us all of gallium's capabilities also for
> the intel chips, for example having lots of different state trackers.
> (coming back to my original intention of cairo as a gallium st)
>

If you don't realize the complexity of a gpu driver, or the 100's of
thousands of hours that have gone into i965, it's easy to say 'lets
throw that all away and start from scratch with a gallium driver' ;-)

There is ilo.. I suppose if someone cared enough they could add NIR
support and figure out how to share the compiler back-end with i965,
so it wouldn't be *completely* starting from scratch.  But there is
still a big delta between ilo and i965 in terms of features and
supported hw gen's.

BR,
-R