On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Timothy Arceri <tarc...@itsqueeze.com> wrote: > 3. The GLSL IR opts are both slow and not always optimal (possibly > transforming the code to something that's harder to opt later), but due to > uniform/varying optimisation requirements some optimisations are required > *before* we can do validation. With NIR we have an opportunity to do these > optimisations in NIR either by building a nir based linker for the final > linking stage (uniform/varying validation/location assignment) or by a > little bit of back and forth of information between NIR and GLSL IR. This is > something that can't really be done with LLVM/Gallium. I was working towards > this while at Collabora.
If you really want to have a NIR-based linker for all drivers, the easiest way to get there is to add NIR-to-TGSI (for Gallium) and NIR-to-MESA-IR (for old classic drivers). Marek _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
