[Mesa-dev] software implementation of vulkan for gsoc/evoc

[Jacob Lifshay]

I think vulkan is supposed to be reentrant already.
Jacob Lifshay

On Feb 10, 2017 3:38 PM, "Roland Mainz" <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Jacob Lifshay
> <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to write a software implementation of Vulkan for inclusion
> in
> > mesa3d. I wanted to use a tiled renderer coupled with llvm and either
> write
> > or use a whole-function-vectorization pass. Would anyone be willing to
> > mentor me for this project? I would probably only need help getting it
> > committed, and would be able to do the rest with minimal help.
>
> Please do me a favour and implement the renderer in an reentrant way,
> i.e. no global variables (e.g. put all variables which are "global" in
> a "handle" struct which is then passed around, e.g. like libpam was
> implemented). This helps a lot with later multithreading and helps
> with debugging the code.
>
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> Bye,
> Roland
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