Re: [PATCH] [RFC] graphics/MesaLib with osmesa and software-only rendering

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 07:06:40PM +0200, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote:
> [...]
> 
> What seems to be reliable is what results with my attached patch that
> adds the osmesa option to MesaLib, together with
> 
> 	PKG_OPTIONS.MesaLib+= -dri -llvm osmesa
> 
> . While osmesa without dri but _with_ llvm might be worth considering,
> this needs disentanglement of the current MesaLib options.mk and it
> might not really be what I am after, with defaulting to using multiple
> rendering threads per user who is logged into the machine (could be
> some dozen at any time).

I'm interested in a software-only Mesa too, and llvmpipe would be a plus.
In my case it's for running on platforms where we have a framebuffer but
no support for the GPU (e.g. most ARM SoCs).

I managed to build mesa with llvmpipe some time ago, but it was very hackish.

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