[Mesa-users] OSMesa and Gallium/LLVM

[mesa.10.helix222 at spamgourmet.com]

On 28.09.2012 15:57, Brian Paul - brianp at vmware.com wrote:
> On 09/28/2012 12:29 AM, mesa.10.helix222 at spamgourmet.com wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Probably a day or so.

This sounds good!

Thanks for your hints!
Sebastian