[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/10] amd,radeonsi: add a real runtime linker

[Nicolai Hähnle]

these patches change the way we load shaders, initially for radeonsi
but ideally radv would adopt the same approach.

Basically, instead of hard-coding that we have a single .text section
in the ELF generated by LLVM, we align ourselves more with the ELF
standard and actually look at all the sections in the file(s), lay
them out in memory, and resolve relocations between them.

There is still hard-coding of ".text" sections for the purpose of
gfx9+ merged shaders.

The immediate consequence is that we will be able to emit .rodata
in LLVM and emit absolute or relative relocations that will be
resolved when shaders are uploaded to the GPU.

As a next step, I want us to explicitly record LDS symbol in the ELF
symbol table and have ac_rtld lay out and resolve those symbols at
load time. This will allow us to use LDS both for communication
between shader parts and for temporary variables used within each
part.

Please review!

Thanks,
Nicolai