[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/3 v2] r600g: get rid of dummy pixel shader

[Dieter Nützel]

Am 26.04.2017 14:37, schrieb tournier.elie:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not an r600g person but I will be pleased to have a look to this 
> work.

Hello Elie,

I know, read most of your posts about your 'former' fp64 lib which was 
indeed HW-agnostic.

> I'm currently working on the fp64 for r600g. Hope to be able to send a
> series in fews days.

Do you have something handy for testing?
My r600g (Turks XT / HD 6670) times run out... ;-)
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/950505-radeon-rx-550-amdgpu-pro-vs-drm-next-mesa-17-2-dev?p=950577#post950577

> The fp64 code is not HW specific, I can test it on my laptop with an
> Intel card. I don't even own a r600g card.

Do you want my above card for testing r600g?

> Have a nice day.

Have a nice spring, late here in old (northern) Europe...

Dieter

> On 25 April 2017 at 03:00, Dieter Nützel <Dieter at nuetzel-hh.de> wrote:
>> Am 12.04.2017 22:06, schrieb Dave Airlie:
>>> 
>>> On 13 April 2017 at 06:03, Markus Trippelsdorf 
>>> <markus at trippelsdorf.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 2017.04.12 at 20:45 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 April 2017 at 20:34, Constantine Kharlamov 
>>>>> <Hi-Angel at yandex.ru>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> >> I suspect this breaks because r600 more often fails to
>>>>> >> compile some shaders,
>>>>> >> and the hw requires a fragment shader and we use the empty one as a
>>>>> >> fallback in that case.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ok, that wasn't obvious, I running the system with the patchset on
>>>>> > HD5730, including
>>>>> > piglit testing — so far is fine.
>>>>> >
>>>>> If in doubt ask the bug reporter(s) to test a patch on their 
>>>>> machines.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Well, the question is why bother with this legacy code at all?
>>>> I would expect a much more conservative approach. Except for 
>>>> essential
>>>> patches to keep the hardware running, everything else should be
>>>> rejected. Nobody is expecting new features for this ancient hardware
>>>> anyway.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I do have 90% of GL4.3 for evergreen and newer done in a branch,
>>> 
>>> It's just a lack of time to fix the last few hangs and motivate 
>>> myself
>>> to get it posted/reviewied.
>>> 
>>> Then of course getting sb support.
>>> 
>>> Dave.
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Dave,
>> 
>> can you please send the link to your latest work on this?
>> So someone (we) can have a look and learn/maybe fix it.
>> Maybe Elie step in and offer fp64 for r600g if he has some time left.
>> My times on r600g come to an end...
>> RX 580, 8 GB, Nitro+ is coming on Friday/Saturday, Yeahhhh ;-)
>> 
>> Then I have to decide if I hold the Turks XT (6670) or to comp it.
>> 
>> Greetings around the world!
>> 
>> Dieter