[Mesa-users] OSMesa and Gallium/LLVM

[mesa.10.helix222 at spamgourmet.com]

Hi!

On 27.09.2012 15:38, Brian Paul - brianp at vmware.com wrote:
>> On 26.09.2012 16:22, Brian Paul - brianp at vmware.com wrote:
>>> On 09/26/2012 05:18 AM, mesa.10.helix222 at spamgourmet.com wrote:
>>>> Hallo!
>>>>
>>>> I'd just like to ask if it is possible to use llvmpipe with OSMesa as
>>>> target.
>>>
>>> No, we'd basically need to write an OSMesa "state tracker" for
>>> gallium. It's on my long-term to-do list, but pretty low priority.
>>
>> How much effort do you think this would take? Doesn't it mean just to
>> replace the access operations to the X11 pixel store?
>
> No, it roughly means taking the src/mesa/drivers/osmesa/osmesa.c
> code, moving it to src/gallium/state_trackers/osmesa/ and rewriting
> it to work with Gallium.

Can you estimate how much time it would take for an experienced C/C++
programmer without previous knowledge of the mesa internals to do
this?

Thanks and Regards!
Sebastian