Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [khornicek] 74209: [RAPPS] - Add a custom build of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. This build contains mesa, gallium and llvmpipe. It provides an enormous performance boost over the software implemen...

[Michael Fritscher]

Hi,

the "special samba edition" is sort of the same thing I think.

I don't know, but could the mesa source be stripped down?

Best regards,
Michael Fritscher
>   And another reason to make our SVN source tree
> structure modularized.
>
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>  De : Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Colin
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>  Envoyé : lundi 20 mars 2017 23:05
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>  Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [khornicek] 74209: [RAPPS] - Add a
>  custom build of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. This build contains mesa,
>  gallium and llvmpipe. It provides an enormous performance boost over the
>  software implemen...
>
>  Am 20.03.2017 um 09:44 schrieb Kamil Hornicek:
> >   few other people asked me, but Jerome did it
> > right. Mesa code base is
> >  rather big and llvm is not small either. Integrating it in our
> >  building process and keeping it in sync would require huge amount of
> >  effort. It would also increase both the ISOs and the build time. 
>  I'm seeing more and more people afraid of adding anything "big" to our
>  tree. But this is just natural for a project that aims to become a fully
>  fledged operating system!
>
>  The worst thing would be an OS that can be quickly compiled from scratch
>  and then needs lots of binary blobs to be useful. Even worse, those binary
>  blobs could hardly be verified and patched.
>  Don't forget we already had that with our schannel.dll implementation that
>  depended on an external GnuTLS binary. Fortunately, this is fixed by now
>  and ReactOS supports TLS out of the box.
>  I would like to see the same for a Mesa/Gallium/llvmpipe stack.
>  Having one somewhere hidden in RAPPS, but not in an out of the box ReactOS
>  installation from the ReactOS giveaway CDs would be very disappointing...
>
>  I also understand the group though who wants the default ReactOS build to
>  be lightweight. So maybe Mesa/Gallium/llvmpipe could become part of
>  another module which is added through our "modules" subdirectory.
>  Our current SVN setup with just one ReactOS repository does not really
>  encourage adding new modules. Another reason for a move to Git where
>  everybody could easily put his big module into an own repository :)
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Colin
>
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