[sldev] Opensl on SPARC..... Not yet....

[Dana Fagerstrom]

Folks,

I've been quietly watching this alias.  One of my new tasks is to get a 
Solaris pkg of the viewer built for x86/x64 and SPARC.  Though these 
aren't "official" builds the work should help opensl.  I have an x86 
version of the pkg done but discovered that my graphics card doesn't 
support 32-bit color.  Therefore I have yet to test it.  Once I get an 
appropriate platform for testing I plan on using DTrace to look for hot 
spots in the code.

I also attempted a build on SPARC.  All looks good but the GL-related 
#ifdef's need to be tweaked because we don't support Mesa on SPARC.  
Luckily the Darwin "branches" look much more compatible so we'll see. 

The entire project may be re-prioritized and placed on the back burner 
but I'll be sure to push my changes to opensl.org as soon as I'm happy 
with them.

Dana

 Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 16:43 -0700, James Cook wrote:
>> Yeah, it's those pesky 1 GHz Athlon Thunderbirds that I worry about. 
>> I'll dig into our CPU statistics and see if anyone still uses those with 
>> SL.  If not, I'll turn on SSE instructions in the builds.
>
> I do.
>
> The other advantage of autovectorization is you get support for PPC
> AltiVec and x86_64 and whatever else may come about for free. I wonder
> if spot has tried compiling slviewer on a SPARC yet...
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