On 20/05/14 16:21, Marek Olšák wrote: > Well, I have never studied the build system, so I don't know exactly > what this series does and how it affects the size of the drivers. > > Could you please summarize what binaries are created, how big they > are, and compare the shared vs static approach vs the current way? And > what is the role of the pipe loader? > Seems like I jumped into too many presumptions in the introductory email :\
Pipe-driver - gallium/drivers/$hw and its respective winsys built into a standalone loadable module. Installed as gallium-pipe/pipe_(r600|radeonsi|nouveau).so Pipe-loader - aux module (linked into the final library) that loads the appropriate pipe-driver. Static("megadriver") - identical to what you did with megaradeon. All the drivers selected at configure are linked into the same blob. Hardlink for each target for compatibility reasons. Libraries: dri: (r600|radeonsi|nouveau)_dri.so -> 6.5 MiB vdpau: libvdpau_(r600|radeonsi|nouveau).so -> 3.5 MiB Total: 10MiB Shared("pipe-loader") - create individual pipe-drivers and standalone state-tracker libraries (think of them as bla_dri + libGL). The pipe-driver is used by all ST. Note: the interface is not stable, unlike the dri modules. Hardlink for each target for compatibility reasons. Libraries: dri: (r600|radeonsi|nouveau)_dri.so -> 3.9 MiB vdpau: libvdpau_(r600|radeonsi|nouveau).so -> 633 KiB gallium-pipe: pipe_(r600|radeonsi|nouveau).so -> 5.3 MiB Total: 9.8MiB Current approach - at final link time, most state-trackers pull the gallium/drivers/$hw, via the above mentioned DRM_DESCRIPTOR, to create a independent HW specific library. Resulting in some duplication. dri: (r600|radeonsi|nouveau)_dri.so -> 5.0+4.5+5.3 = 14.8 MiB vdpau: libvdpau_(r600|radeonsi|nouveau).so -> 1.9+1.2+2.3 = 5.4 MiB Total: 20.2MiB Note: currently egl-static and opencl are hardcoded to static and shared respectively. Both of which are will be converted with the next series. Summary: Static - savings scale with number of hardware (gallium/drivers). Shared - savings scale with number of state-trackers (gallium/state-tracker). -Emil > Marek > _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev