Re: Updates to mesa and llvm

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 10/26/2015 02:59 PM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> Le 26 oct. 2015 22:46, "Philip Balister" <philip@balister.org> a écrit :
>>
>> Recently I need to get the llvmpipe driver running with mesa. I ended up
>> adding a llvm-3.7 recipe and updating mesa to 10.6.8. Not sure if going
>> to 11.x.y also works.
> 
> I was told 2 weeks ago that updates to 10.6.8 was too late for this cycle,
> and Ross said we could cherry pick patches from upstream if needed..
> 
> As for 11.x, we have patches ready for next cycle.. As soon as we can
> update master we will send them.

That is what I thought. llvm3.3 doesn't work with mesa-10 (and I assume
11), so I'll send that in soon, unless there is a compelling reason not
to. It does look like we support multiple llvm versions.

Philip

> 
>>
>> I'd like to upstream these since they configuration actually worked and
>> performance was much better. I recall some discussion lately about this
>> process and wanted to make sure I didn't break anything :)
>>
>> I'll send on the llvm 3.7 stuff this week, since it should work in
>> parallel with the older recipe. I do need to move the license file
>> checksum into the version specific piece.
>>
>> The timing on the mesa update is trickier since we are trying to
>> stabilize the oe-core release.
>>
>> Comments? Will adding another llvm recipe cause trouble for other
> packages?
>>
>> Philip
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