On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:57:32PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: Hello Jonathan,
> See previous libva discussions. If it is to support more than just Intel > it needs to be in xenocara and new Mesa Makefiles will need to be written. > > That would also be the case to use gallium-va with the iris Mesa driver for > Intel >= gen8. I'm not aware of the previous discussions, but I'm not sure if you're saying "don't put it in ports" or not? Even if it means that *only* Intel hardware benefits for the time being, this port is really very useful and I've been working with Eugene to test his work. Now that I've got it up and running, it's pretty impressive: for example, on my OpenBSD machine, ffmpeg video encoding on a test file went from 6m30 down to 2m20 (also, not coincidentally, moving from fully consuming all 4 cores at to consuming only a small portion of 1 core). If nothing else, support in ports might be a useful stepping stone on the way to having libva in xenocara which, I imagine, is a rather harder job? Laurie
