[Mesa-dev] drm-shim for faking GEM drivers using simulators or noop.

[Lionel Landwerlin]

On 21/03/2019 19:04, Eric Anholt wrote:
> I've just put up a new repo that I'm hoping to use to enable automatic
> shader-db results for various drivers on Gitlab CI merge requests (and
> maybe with some more work, delete the simulator backends of vc4 and v3d).
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/anholt/drm-shim
>
> I've copied a bit of Mesa stuff out for convenience, but that ends up
> actually being most of the code in the repo since it's not really that
> much work.  Alternatively, I have a branch of most of it, inside of
> Mesa, if we wanted to just add it in as one of the tools.
>
> Does anyone have any strong feelings about where it should go?
> mesa/mesa, mesa/drm-shim, or anholt/drm-shim?


I've been thinking about writing a validation layer for commands 
submitted by anv/i965/iris.

Because it would need to decode the stream and parse it, genxml is kind 
of needed, so obviously mesa/mesa would be easier.


-Lionel