On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> wrote: > On 08/27/2014 02:55 PM, Marek Olšák wrote: >> Our plan is to always require the latest released version of LLVM >> because of new features in our LLVM backend that the radeonsi driver >> depends on to advertise all GL features. Some new features listed for >> the radeonsi driver in Mesa release notes are only enabled if you have >> latest LLVM from git/svn. > > I think this underscores the fundamental problem have having such a > critical, core piece of project infrastructure being completely out of > the control of the project. For me, trying to ship a product on which > people rely, this is an absolute non-starter. > > At least with the other components on which Mesa relies (e.g., libdrm, > 2D drivers, etc.) it's largely the same group of people with the same > set of goals.
With us doing LLVM point releases, we could squeeze new features into them if we need the features in Mesa *now*. I think this happened with geometry shaders for radeonsi and it's probably going to happen more often. So it's not so out of control. Marek _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev