llvmpipe - was: Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-12-06

On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 14:40 +1000, Damien Stewart wrote:
> On 23/3/26 6:47 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > As for the LLVM issue: There are some limitations with LLVM on 32-bit P=
owerPC,
> > so we may have to turn off llvm-softpipe for the time being on 32-bit P=
owerPC.
>=20
> Regarding this, while my pure Debian install is fine. I am seeing this=
=20
> with the latest Debian based Mint. This makes it unusable for me,=20
> because I manage my Linux installs with my own boot manager, that uses=
=20
> Zenity for the interface. And zenity breaks with this error on the=20
> terminal. I don't recall seeing any kinds of these errors from GCC=20
> compiled code. Assuming it's because Clang was used for some binaries.

The LLVM error messages don't mean that the binaries were built with LLVM/C=
lang
but that LLVM is being used for software-rendering. The underlying software=
 is
called llvmpipe.

See: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/llvmpipe.html

Since LLVM does not support all features on 32-bit PowerPC, llvmpipe has so=
me
issues on this architecture.

Adrian

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