On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 16:37 -0700, Jason Ekstrand wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott <cwabbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. > >>> > >>> - GLSL linking in NIR > >>> - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive > >>> things on GLSL IR > >> > >> Ian said this should wait until everything is using NIR so that we > >> don't have two linkers. :) > > > > Yeah, and it also won't make sense to do it until we can get the NIR > > optimizations up to par with the GLSL ones so that we can disable all > > the GLSL ones after linking and not get a regression. This would > > involve porting all the GLSL optimizations to NIR, which now that I > > think about it actually seems like a quite doable GSoC project -- it's > > a pretty well-defined task and there are lots of little optimizations > > to translate so it's easy to make progress, although porting all of > > them over might be too much for one summer. > > Yeah, grabbing a handful of optimizations and porting them seems like > a good GSoC project to me. There's also the NIR checklist which > people could grab stuff off of.
Out of curiosity, I know that NIR can be used with the intel drivers but, is there a way to test it with gallium? - Bruno > --Jason > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
