[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/15] program: Remove remnants of NV_fragment_program and other cruft

Kenneth Graunke kenneth at whitecape.org
Tue Mar 1 00:05:27 UTC 2016


On Monday, February 29, 2016 3:34:34 PM PST Matt Turner wrote:
> We removed NV_vertex_program and NV_fragment_program{,_option} in 2012 yet 
we
> continue finding more pieces of them years later. Last year we discussed
> removing some remaining bits of NV_fragment_program_option that were used by
> a broken Viewperf11 test [1]. Hopefully it's been long enough and we can 
strip
> out the rest of the condition code support from Mesa IR.
> 
> If not... then I guess I can try to rebase that out of the series. I hope it
> doesn't come to that. I'd really like to replace Mesa IR with NIR. idr
> suggested a alternate plan that's making more and more sense to me though: 
push
> Mesa IR down to just something i915 and r200 consume or get rid of it 
entirely.
> 
> That would require 1) a NIR -> Mesa IR translator (for i915 and r200)
>                    2) changing the program parser to generate NIR
>                    3) ...?
> 
> And with Rob's work to bring NIR to Gallium (and probably some more), we can
> probably cut out Mesa IR -> TGSI as well.
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-February/
077015.html

Series is:
Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>

I think that you should get an Ack from Brian or Roland, though.
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