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

[Marek Olšák]

Latest version with an updated commit message:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa/commit/?h=master&id=8671613ed19586ac1eceda48eb067a416f9c93be

Marek

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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