On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/06/14 08:28, Eric Anholt wrote: >> To those who have been curious what I was up to: I wasn't sure when I >> could announce my new projecct, I just got the ack day before yesterday, >> and I've been a little busy. >> >> I'm working toward building a Mesa driver for Broadcom VC4 (aka >> Raspberry Pi). At the moment I'm still bringing up the DRM side of >> things, but I hope to be doing bits of userspace in the next few days. >> Current status is I have a skeleton DRM KMS driver that's going to talk >> to the firmware for modesetting, and now I'm starting on the execution >> side of things. >> >> I'm probably going to start out doing a gallium driver for simplicity, >> to avoid having to do all the DRI crap we've got in brw_context.c and >> texture miptree validation and getting user data into VBOs and all that >> other almost-boilerplate. Long term I may end up switching to classic >> so I can get swrast fallbacks and the ability to implement single-copy >> manually-tiled TexImage uploads like. For now I want to get to drawing >> triangles as soon as I can. >> > Hi Eric, > > IIRC the i915 driver already uses softpipe/llvmpipe as a fallback for some > operations.
It doesn't, that experiment went away a long time ago. Well, unless you consider "the vertex pipeline" as one of those operations, in which case yes it's always using a fallback to llvmpipe :) Stéphane _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
