What’s been talked about extensively and for quite a while but not acted upon too much is ridding Mesa of Mesa IR, it’s intermediate representation used internally by core Mesa and its drivers. It was also talked about as a possible summer project of replacing Mesa IR with GLSL IR. Now though an individual has begun gutting out Mesa IR and providing a direct GL Shading Language IR to TGSI (the Gallium3D IR) translator…
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