Re: GNOME Shell on llvmpipe?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=8d789be03430b80e0ba2fef19d56dd0b8e699ea2

There's the swrast commit. Feel free to start porting :)

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
> Hi Emmanuele!
>
>> as far as I know, llvmpipe doesn't support texture-from-pixmap, thus
>> making a compositor based on it fairly difficult. not impossible, just
>> unbearably slow.
>>
>> the same applies to Mesa swrast, which doesn't expose the required GLX
>> support.
>
> Quoting from the Phoronix article[1] (not idea if this is correct):
> "Fortunately, Red Hat's David Airlie has now created a patch that adds the
> texture from pixmap (TFP) support to Mesa's software rasterizer (the
> "swrast" driver). The patch was published this morning on the mesa-dev
> mailing list. David mentions with this patch he can "run gnome-shell
> inside Xephyr slowly. I've no idea why I did it, and g-s has other
> rendering issues under swrast, but it might be useful to hook up llvmpipe
> later. I've no idea if I even want to commit it at this point."
>
> This patch is just a couple dozen lines of code and obviously isn't really
> beneficial quite yet but will hopefully be once hooked into LLVMpipe and
> the other GNOME Shell issues are addressed."
>
> So, I guess that's the point to start *if* somebody is interested.
>
> Regards,
> Johannes
>
> [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI3NQ
>
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