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    Gallium3D: Graphics Done Right

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    Gallium3D is an open-source 3D graphics driver framework that aims to provide graphics hardware support across operating systems and windowing systems. It defines a common set of interfaces to allow 3D hardware drivers and state trackers to work together independently of the underlying operating system or windowing system. Recent work has focused on stabilizing interfaces and improving performance of hardware drivers like the Intel i915 driver while continuing to expand hardware support and address winsys interface issues. The modular design of Gallium3D makes it portable and facilitates the development and mix-and-matching of reusable driver components.

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    Gallium3D is an open-source 3D graphics driver framework that aims to provide graphics hardware support across operating systems and windowing systems. It defines a common set of interfaces to allow 3D hardware drivers and state trackers to work together independently of the underlying operating system or windowing system. Recent work has focused on stabilizing interfaces and improving performance of hardware drivers like the Intel i915 driver while continuing to expand hardware support and address winsys interface issues. The modular design of Gallium3D makes it portable and facilitates the development and mix-and-matching of reusable driver components.

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    Gallium3D is an open-source 3D graphics driver framework that aims to provide graphics hardware support across operating systems and windowing systems. It defines a common set of interfaces to allow 3D hardware drivers and state trackers to work together independently of the underlying operating system or windowing system. Recent work has focused on stabilizing interfaces and improving performance of hardware drivers like the Intel i915 driver while continuing to expand hardware support and address winsys interface issues. The modular design of Gallium3D makes it portable and facilitates the development and mix-and-matching of reusable driver components.

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    Gallium3D: Graphics Done Right

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    Gallium3D is an open-source 3D graphics driver framework that aims to provide graphics hardware support across operating systems and windowing systems. It defines a common set of interfaces to allow 3D hardware drivers and state trackers to work together independently of the underlying operating system or windowing system. Recent work has focused on stabilizing interfaces and improving performance of hardware drivers like the Intel i915 driver while continuing to expand hardware support and address winsys interface issues. The modular design of Gallium3D makes it portable and facilitates the development and mix-and-matching of reusable driver components.

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    Gallium3D

    GraphicsDone Right

    Zack Rusin [email protected]

    Contents

    Recap

    Gallium3D

    General summary Why would you want to use it. Gallium3D latest changes Taking request (no singing)

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    DRI Driver Model


    drm

    App

    Mesa

    DRI Driver

    DRI

    Drivers were tied to OS, API, window system. EG, dealing with DRI cliprects in DrawArrays. Driver interface becoming unmanageable.
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    DRI Driver Model

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    Graphics Pipeline

    Essentially the same for all modern API's

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    Impose new interfaces


    drm

    App

    Mesa

    DRI Driver

    DRI

    Isolate interactions with API, OS, HW. Identify new interfaces. Split the driver.
    Zack Rusin [email protected]

    Gallium in 2007
    drm

    App

    Mesa

    State tracker

    Gallium HW Driver

    OS, Winsys DRI

    The original plan for Gallium3D. Still more or less correct.

    Zack Rusin [email protected]

    Since then...

    Rapid interface evolution Hopefully starting to stabilize, but there are still some minor issues outstanding. On the horizon: simplify TGSI shader representation Changes in the draw module New insights into fallbacks, driver structure. New utility code

    Zack Rusin [email protected]

    Since then...

    Got some hardware drivers working


    I915 (updated to head) softpipe Cell driver i965 Nouveau R300 work

    External driver projects:


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    Building blocks

    Gallium3D at its core is just an interface The actual functionality is split across different modules

    Those modules can be mix-and-matched to produce a complete solution

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    Building blocks

    Important modules within the framework include:

    State trackers

    Implement API on top of Gallium3D Integration with a windowing system, low level management (surfaces, buffers and fencing) Implements the Gallium3D interface

    Winsys

    Gallium3D driver

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    Building blocks

    Important modules within the framework include:

    Draw

    Software vertex paths constant state objects management

    CSO

    Buffers management code TGSI code LLVM integration A few others (sct, util)
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    Software Rasterizer

    App

    Mesa

    State tracker

    softpipe

    any winsys X

    Codegen through LLVM and simple rtasm. A fairly clear path to performance. A good project for someone?
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    Hardware: i915
    i915 drm State tracker

    App

    Mesa

    i915

    intel winsys DRI

    Updated to the latest DRM changes. Near term goal: Rebase to X, DRM head. Later: DRI2, Polish, Performance...
    Zack Rusin [email protected]

    It works on Windows
    DD DX9 State tracker

    App

    XP/DX9 Runtime

    i915

    XP winsys HW

    This is actually working. Validates the portability claims for Gallium.


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    ...It'll work anywhere


    Your OS Your Graphics API HERE Your Winsys HERE Your WM

    App

    i915

    DirectFB, VxWorks, Kdrive, GLES, Cellphones, Robots, FreeBSD, MiniGLX, EGL, Clusters, etc. Wider audience --> better drivers.
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    You don't even need hardware...

    App

    Mesa

    State tracker

    i965simple

    Simulator Winsys

    a file

    A nice way to work on hardware you don't actually have available. Easy to capture, analyze dumps offline. TODO: Replay
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    Shaders

    At the very core of Gallium3D TGSI used throughout

    Drivers can either:


    Use TGSI directly Employ LLVM code-generation facilities

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    LLVM

    TGSI compiled into LLVM IR LLVM optimization passes used Drivers implement LLVM code-generator

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    Winsys issues
    i915 drm State tracker

    App

    Mesa

    i915

    intel winsys DRI

    GLX implemented by DRI + the Winsys layer Swapbuffers, create surface, etc, seem to bypass this nice stack.
    Zack Rusin [email protected]

    Winsys issues

    Neat diagram above ignores non-drawing aspects of the driver. There is real complexity here:

    Surface allocation happens before context creation GL extensions need to know (approximately) before context creation. Swapbuffers

    Currently winsys is splitting into two entities: per-screen and per-context. May end up with a parallel stack, ie:
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    What's in a winsys?
    State tracker HW context

    GL App

    Context i915 drm

    GLX

    HW info

    Screen DRI

    Orange components... A lot of interfaces... Small piece of code, but complex. SOON: Split it up for a clearer stack.
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    New diagram

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    Summary

    We're getting there. Interface churn should start to slow down, but some pain still to come. Focus to shift:

    Performance Conformance & correctness Stabilization

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