[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] r600: fork and import gallium/radeon

[Emil Velikov]

On 18 September 2017 at 17:08, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 14.09.2017 16:19, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Marek,
>>>
>>> On 14 September 2017 at 14:06, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>>>>
>>>> This marks the end of code sharing between r600 and radeonsi.
>>>>
>>> It has the "what" but it's missing the "why". Can you please add some
>>> information.
>>
>>
>> Basically, it's getting difficult to work on radeonsi without breaking r600.
>>
>> It's not ideal, but (1) without a solid testing infrastructure that tests
>> all the way back to r600, this is a reasonable measure to reduce the
>> development risk, and (2) with some rare exceptions, our work on radeonsi
>> tends not to help r600, neither in performance nor in features (and least of
>> all bug fixes).
>>
>> I haven't looked at the patch itself yet, but I'm okay with the general
>> idea.
>
> Does it mean I can push this?
>
I've got a local implementation that I'm fuzzing as we speak.
Can you please give me a bit of time to check for explosions.

Meanwhile if someone can provide something we could add in the commit
message ("why") that will be appreciated.

-Emil