On 14-06-2012 09:13, Ken Moffat wrote:> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 01:06:52PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: >> On 06/14/2012 01:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
[...] >>> And maybe expand the treatment of gallium drivers in MesaLib - I'm >>> guessing that avoiding the r300 and r600 gallium drivers is there to >>> avoid needing llvm ? >>> >>> ĸen >> >> Correct. I enabled all drivers by default once, but someone has spoken >> on mailing lists and said how llvm is not required and it should not be >> enabled by default. someone=Fernando :-) > I recall doing that for my old r200, in the days before I > understood that hardware acceleration was available :) I'll give > some thought to listing alternatives in the Mesa build. > > Do people think that most of our users will want to use llvm for > Mesa (i.e. have a default configure which is explained to need llvm, > with options to avoid llvm) ? Or a default without llvm, and > explanations in the options explaining why modern radeons need it ? If it is possible to build without llvm (my case, but I believe others' too) it does not seem reasonable being pushed otherwise. IMHO, agreeing and being consistent with your minimalist KISS point of view, with llvm should be optional, not default. -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
