[Mesa-dev] [RPF PATCH 8/8] docs: add todo.txt for various Mesa tasks

[Timothy Arceri]

Generally I'm not a huge fan of todo.txt files as they tend to not
get updated. However we have a faily active community looking for
ways to contribute and wiki pages tend to be forgotten about even
more easily as well as being more onerous to update.

features.txt although more specific has been successful IMO partly
due to its simplicity, if others are open to the idea I'd like to
give it a go for all those little tasks we never get around to.

If we can stick to a standard layout we might be able to get the
guys from mesamatrix to ingest it for greater exposure/prettier
formating.

Let me know what you think.
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 docs/helpwanted.html |  2 ++
 docs/todo.txt        | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/todo.txt

diff --git a/docs/helpwanted.html b/docs/helpwanted.html
index 9b7b5e0004..cd60b37844 100644
--- a/docs/helpwanted.html
+++ b/docs/helpwanted.html
@@ -42,20 +42,22 @@ issues in the code.
 <p>
 You can find some further To-do lists here:
 </p>
 
 <p>
 <b>Common To-Do lists:</b>
 </p>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/features.txt">
     <b>features.txt</b></a> - Status of OpenGL 3.x / 4.x features in Mesa.</li>
+  <li><a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/todo.txt">
+    <b>todo.txt</b></a> - Various Mesa development tasks.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 <b>Legacy Driver specific To-Do lists:</b>
 </p>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R600ToDo">
     <b>r600g</b></a> - Driver for ATI/AMD R600 - Northern Island.</li>
   <li><a href="https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300ToDo">
     <b>r300g</b></a> - Driver for ATI R300 - R500.</li>
diff --git a/docs/todo.txt b/docs/todo.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..95c6d29b02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/todo.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Mesa Develoment tasks:
+----------------------
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Easy:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Use union rather than struct for storing program atrributes in gl_program
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Drivers: i915, swrast (classic driver)
+
+Benefits: small memory reduction (all drivers)
+
+Requirements:
+
+C program experience, ideally i915 hardware for testing, but swrast might be
+enough. i915 can be tested via Intels jenkins instance once patches completed.
+
+swrast can be built by adding swrast to --with-dri-drivers="" when building,
+then tested using the LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 env var.
+
+Task:
+
+Use a union in the gl_program struct (see mtypes.h)
+
+We should be able to make this struct a union, since the program should be
+either an asm program or a glsl shader. However some drivers
+(i915/fragment_programs, swrast/prog_execute) mix the use of these fields.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Medium:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Hard:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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