LLVM Back-End For Gallium3D Almost There

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Back-End For Gallium3D Almost There

While Tungsten's Gallium3D architecture is still a ways out from being used by most open-source graphics drivers and then being picked up by end-users, it continues to pickup new technical features. Corbin Simpson and Stephane Marchesin that work on the Radeon and Nouveau projects, respectively, have been working to building LLVM back-ends for Gallium3D...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Njk1OQ

[RealNC]

OK, not exactly "almost there" but almost.

[Kano]

Thats good, then GLSL should work.

[bulletxt]

"it now builds, but it ends with a segmentation fault."

lol.. good luck to them and debugging what's causing that segmentation fault :)

[FunkyRider]

segfault implied the CPU is simple executing garbage...

[bulletxt]

segfault implied the CPU is simple executing garbage...

mmm... you should probably learn some things before talking... segmentation faults is way more complicated then "executing garbage". As always wikipedia is a good place to learn things you don't know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault


also, if it was so easy to fix they would have done it immediately..don't you think?


cheers

[mattst88]

Wow. Maybe wait until there's something useful to report before reporting? "Almost there"

Come on now. I know there isn't much going on, but the article is grasping at strays.

[timofonic]

Mac OS X uses LLVM for graphical stuff, so there's must be some reason.

I hope Linux gets more advanced in the graphical stuff and can compete in this arena with both Mac OS X and Microsoft platforms in performance and support some day...

[TechMage89]

A compiler backend is not a trivial piece of code, and getting it integrated isn't trivial either. I expect the reason for the segmentation fault will be tracked down and fixed soon (likely revealing several more bugs, but that's always the way it is with new code).

[mattst88]

No, it's not even that.

An article was written about a piece of code that is 'barely started' as if it were 'Almost there'

See more of the IRC log:

<EruditeHermit> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njk1OQ
<EruditeHermit> MostAwesomeDude: looks like you made the rounds already
<MostAwesomeDude> EruditeHermit: Aw, dammit, and for something that's only barely started.

[yoshi314]

http://tirdc.livejournal.com/23332.html


09:43 #dri-devel: < mattst88> MostAwesomeDude, tell us more, what's it do, etc.
09:45 #dri-devel: < MostAwesomeDude> mattst88: Segfault. this made my day :]

[Vadi]

Mac OS X uses LLVM for graphical stuff, so there's must be some reason.

I hope Linux gets more advanced in the graphical stuff and can compete in this arena with both Mac OS X and Microsoft platforms in performance and support some day...

Ahh, and people wonder why is Apple a bigger 'threat' than Microsoft.