Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] LLVM requirement for drivers using draw

2017-01-27 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Emil Velikov wrote: > With this in mind we can drop the LLVM requirement, which some > builders/distros explicitly patch out. Like who? I'm not sure why binary distros would do such a thing. Gentoo used to have a patch that removed the AC_MSG_ERROR from configur

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] LLVM requirement for drivers using draw

2017-01-27 Thread Emil Velikov
On 26 January 2017 at 19:32, Marek Olšák wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Emil Velikov > wrote: >> On 26 January 2017 at 18:54, Marek Olšák wrote: >>> They still have to ship LLVM to have GCN support. Or do they simply not ship >>> radeonsi? >>> >> The latter - they omit anything that

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] LLVM requirement for drivers using draw

2017-01-26 Thread Marek Olšák
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Emil Velikov wrote: > On 26 January 2017 at 18:54, Marek Olšák wrote: >> They still have to ship LLVM to have GCN support. Or do they simply not ship >> radeonsi? >> > The latter - they omit anything that requires LLVM. > I dare not discuss how good/bad/etc of a c

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] LLVM requirement for drivers using draw

2017-01-26 Thread Emil Velikov
On 26 January 2017 at 18:54, Marek Olšák wrote: > They still have to ship LLVM to have GCN support. Or do they simply not ship > radeonsi? > The latter - they omit anything that requires LLVM. I dare not discuss how good/bad/etc of a choice that it, but some people have their reasons. -Emil P.S.

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] LLVM requirement for drivers using draw

2017-01-26 Thread Marek Olšák
They still have to ship LLVM to have GCN support. Or do they simply not ship radeonsi? Marek On Jan 26, 2017 7:30 PM, "Emil Velikov" wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's a few small fixes/functionality improvements when dealing with > LLVM. > > Most notably the series adds "LLVM" string [when applicable

[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] LLVM requirement for drivers using draw

2017-01-26 Thread Emil Velikov
Hi all, Here's a few small fixes/functionality improvements when dealing with LLVM. Most notably the series adds "LLVM" string [when applicable] to the .get_name() callback for drivers that use draw. Thus developer can respond accordingly - be that "rebuild with LLVM or enjoy the bad performan