On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote: > On 07.08.2016 12:50, Marek Olšák wrote: > >> It would mainly be a futile task if it had to compete with their >> official Mesa driver. > > Not quite. Would give us all of gallium's capabilities also for > the intel chips, for example having lots of different state trackers. > (coming back to my original intention of cairo as a gallium st) >
If you don't realize the complexity of a gpu driver, or the 100's of thousands of hours that have gone into i965, it's easy to say 'lets throw that all away and start from scratch with a gallium driver' ;-) There is ilo.. I suppose if someone cared enough they could add NIR support and figure out how to share the compiler back-end with i965, so it wouldn't be *completely* starting from scratch. But there is still a big delta between ilo and i965 in terms of features and supported hw gen's. BR, -R _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev