Re: [Mesa-dev] Rust drivers in Mesa

2020-10-04 Thread Dylan Baker
The elbrus C/C++ compiler is largely gcc compatible asks supported in meson, so that really shouldn't be a problem. Dylan On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, at 11:24, Alexander Schlichte wrote: > On 04.10.20 17:19, Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote: > > Cc'd. > > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:17:28PM +0300, Michael Sh

Re: [Mesa-dev] Rust drivers in Mesa

2020-10-04 Thread Marek Olšák
I think it's just going to get more messy and complicated for people who don't want to learn or use another language. Mesa already requires people to know C, Python, and now newly Gitlab CI scripts just to get stuff done and merged. Another language would only exacerbate the issue and steepen the l

Re: [Mesa-dev] Rust drivers in Mesa

2020-10-04 Thread Alexander Schlichte
On 04.10.20 17:19, Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote: Cc'd. On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:17:28PM +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote: For one, I'm porting ALT Linux onto e2k platform (there's only an early non-optimizing version of Rust port there by now), and we're maintaining repos for aarch64, armv7hf, ppc64e

Re: [Mesa-dev] Rust drivers in Mesa

2020-10-04 Thread Jacob Lifshay
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, 10:13 Jacob Lifshay wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, 08:19 Alyssa Rosenzweig < > alyssa.rosenzw...@collabora.com> wrote: > >> Cc'd. >> >> On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:17:28PM +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote: >> > Hello, >> > regarding this proposal: >> > http://lists.freedeskt

Re: [Mesa-dev] Rust drivers in Mesa

2020-10-04 Thread Jacob Lifshay
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020, 08:19 Alyssa Rosenzweig < alyssa.rosenzw...@collabora.com> wrote: > Cc'd. > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:17:28PM +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote: > > Hello, > > regarding this proposal: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2020-October/224639.html > > > > Aly

Re: [Mesa-dev] Rust drivers in Mesa

2020-10-04 Thread Alyssa Rosenzweig
Cc'd. On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:17:28PM +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote: > Hello, > regarding this proposal: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2020-October/224639.html > > Alyssa, Rust is not "naturally fit for graphics driver > development" since it's not as universally avail