[Mesa-dev] V3 i965/Gallium ARB_get_program_binary support

[Timothy Arceri]

Ping! The outstanding patches for review are:

4, 12, 22, 23

Gallium specific patches:

17-21

The following have a v1 r-b Nicolai but have changed since:

13, 14, 15

Branch available here:

https://github.com/tarceri/Mesa.git gallium-program-binary

On 29/11/17 12:24, Timothy Arceri wrote:
> V3:
> This is basically the V2 that Jordan sent with feedback addressed,
> gallium support added, some minor functional changes such as only
> storing the default uniforms to either disk or program binary cache
> (rather than fixing them up later) and some refactoring to allow
> greater code sharing between gallium and i965.
> 
> This series adds i965/gallium support for ARB_get_program_binary
> with greater than 0 supported formats. Today we support this extension,
> but advertise support for 0 formats. This series allows i965/gallium
> to advertise support for 1 format.
> 
> This series defines a common Mesa format for ARB_get_program_binary,
> along with helper functions to read and write the format. The binary
> saved can only be reloaded on the exact same Mesa build using the
> exact same hardware.
> 
> The i965/gallium implementation saves out a serialized nir/tgsi
> represenation of the program. For i965 we can later add support for
> saving the gen binary program as well. (We will still need the nir
> program for state based recompiles.)
> 
> This implementation passes piglit, deqp and glcts functions. It also
> works with (and fixes a crash in) Dead Island with makes use of the
> extension.
> 
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