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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> On Montag, 17. April 2017 03:17:21 CEST Duncan wrote: |
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> > Martin Vaeth posted on Sun, 16 Apr 2017 18:01:00 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> > > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > >> If you're not using radeon/amdgpu, you can probably disable it with |
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> > >> little consequence. |
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> > > |
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> > > Googleearth on intel's graphics card becomes unusable slow if mesa is |
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> > > compiled without llvm. |
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> > Thanks. I wasn't aware Intel graphics used llvm too. Now I am. =:^) |
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> I'm not sure, but even if they didn't, AFAIK mesa uses LLVM to speed up |
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CPU |
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> rendering, so you would probably want it regardless (my understanding is: |
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in |
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> any case where a driver doesn't implement a particular OpenGL function, a |
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> software implementation can be used instead, and that can be accelerated/ |
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> optimised by LLVM). |
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> > Does anyone know about nVidia graphics, both servantware and |
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freedomware? |
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> > I'm guessing the servantware doesn't use it, but the freedomware very |
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> > well could, if both Intel and AMD are doing so. |
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> I would be surprised if the nouveau driver didn't use LLVM, too, but I |
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don't |
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> know for sure. No idea about nvidia. |
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> > And while we're on the topic, last I knew nVidia had no plans to do |
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> > wayland with their servantware at all. Any hints of that changing? |
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> No idea, sorry (also, I don't care ;-) ). |
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> Greetings |
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> -- |
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> Marc Joliet |
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Just a follow-up. |
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I got rid of llvm on my Gentoo nvidia machine and so far see no ill |
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effects. Granted, I'm using an i7 980 Extreme, 24GB with an nvidia |
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960-based card, so it's pretty good hardware but I've seen no ill effects |
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so far. |
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Additionally, with Google releasing Google Earth as a web app at least |
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inside of Chrome it runs fine. Pan/zoom/tilt 3D views of the world. Lots of |
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fun and if it was faster with llvm I don't think I'd notice it. |
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As for my wife's laptop which started this discussion I had an emerge 2 |
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weeks ago of about 200 packages, mostly KDE, which took almost 24 hours to |
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build on a 5-6 year old laptop.This time around I have about 175 packages |
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today. We'll see how long it takes as a data point but I've decided to move |
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her to Ubuntu. I think I need to be spending my time more productively than |
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building this much code this often. I already run Ubuntu as a VM on my |
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Gentoo machine due to apps not supported (or not building correctly) by |
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Gentoo in portage. Sad as it will be the first non-Gentoo boot in my house |
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in about 15 years. |
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