Re: Avoiding llvm from ports on rpi4

Mark Millard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
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On Feb 22, 2025, at 16:54, Charlie Li <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nuno Teixeira wrote:
>> x11 driver on rpi4 is scfb framebuffer and I don't know yet if some software acceleration will help rpi4.
>> I will look at it later.
> As explained in the bug years ago, many desktop/programs expect some sort of support for accelerated rendering else they don't run at all. Manually specifying scfb in xorg.conf et al is not good enough for those cases.
> 
> LLVMpipe does support runtime code generation for aarch64 despite what the documentation currently says, which probably needs updating to reflect.

I do not see an explicit LLVMpipe option in any graphics/mesa-dri/Makefile* .
So has the port progressed far enough to support such?

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