MESA Driver sponsored by NLnet

todo http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2020-August/000246.html

Build Instructions (by Cole from Vivek's comments on the mailing list)

This tutorial assumes, like the rest of the info on the wiki, that you are running Debian 10.4 either natively or in a virtualized setup.

The following is available as scripts in the libre-soc dev-env-setup repo, and can be easily used by running sudo ./install-mesa-apt-reqs && ./lsoc-mesa-dev-env-setup.

First, we need to install the necessary apt dependencies for building drm and mesa.

In order to install a meson version recent enough to configure mesa, add buster-backports to /etc/apt/sources.list by running the following as root:

echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main" | tee \
 -a /etc/apt/sources.list

Install meson (version 52.0 or later):

apt-get update -y
apt-get install -y -t buster-backports meson

Then install the necessary packages by running the following commands as root:

apt-get update -y
apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get install -y build-essential \
    cmake \
    git \
    pkg-config \
    libatomic-ops-dev \
    libcairo2-dev \
    libcunit1-dev \
    libpciaccess-dev \
    libunwind-dev \
    llvm-8 \
    llvm-8-dev \
    python3.7 \
    python3.7-dev \
    python3-setuptools \
    libzstd-dev \
    libzstd1 \
    zlib1g

Then, still as root, run the following to get the necessary dependencies for building drm and mesa.

apt-get build-dep -y libdrm
apt-get build-dep -y mesa

Now we are going to build and install drm from source as the debian apt versions are not recent enough to build mesa. Run all of these command as a regular user, DO NOT RUN AS ROOT it is not necessary.

First, create our working directory opt in our user directory. In order to not mess with system drm and mesa libraries, also create a sub-directory lsoc_mesa to hold our header files and libraries. After creating the opt directory, cd into it to make it our active, current working directory.

mkdir -p ~/opt/lsoc_mesa
cd ~/opt

Now clone drm from mesa's gitlab. Change to the drm directory. Create a build directory and cd into it.

git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm.git
cd drm
mkdir build && cd build

In order to configure drm for building and installation run the following command. It is very important to specify prefix=/home/$USER/opt/lsoc_mesa because as mentioned above we need these files for development purposes, but we do not want to corrupt or interfere with our system drm libraries.

meson -Dbuildtype=release -Dprefix=/home/$USER/opt/lsoc_mesa ..

After configuration has completed, run ninja to build and install the drm libraries.

ninja install

In order for meson to be able to find the up-to-date drm files we have just built, we need to specify their location with the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/opt/lsoc_mesa/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/

These following vulkan-specific environment variables are necessary to build our branch of mesa successfully:

export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/home/$USER/opt/lsoc_mesa/share/vulkan/icd.d/libresoc_icd.x86_64.json
export VK_LOADER_DEBUG=warn
export LIBRESOC_TRACE=1

Now change back to the base ~/opt directory and clone the mesa git repo from the mesa gitlab instance. Change to the mesa directory. Create a build directory and cd into it.

cd ~/opt
git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/mesa.git
git pull --rebase origin libresoc_dev
git checkout -b libresoc_dev
cd mesa
mkdir build && cd build

In order to configure mesa for building and installation run the following command. Again, it is very important to specify prefix=/home/$USER/opt/lsoc_mesa because as mentioned above we need these files for development purposes, but we do not want to corrupt or interfere with our system mesa libraries.

meson -Dbuildtype=debug -Dprefix=/home/$USER/opt/lsoc_mesa \
 -Dvulkan-drivers=libre-soc ..

After configuration has completed, run ninja to build and install the mesa libraries.

ninja install

From here on is solely Vivek's instructions

To test the code I am sing simple tests built by

https://github.com/GameTechDev/IntroductionToVulkan

I am also using debug build for vulkan loader if any one interested in that please look at

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader/blob/master/BUILD.md

I have pushed code to the new branch https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vivekvpandya/mesa/-/tree/libresoc_dev previously it was on master so it will cause me problems working on master branch.

Running vulkan intro tutorial

Demos with lavapipe

It can be built with meson configure -Dvulkan-drivers=swrast -Dgallium-drivers=swrast set VK_ICD_FILENAMES to the lvp_icd.x86_64.json file and vulkaninfo should show it.

I tried running demos from https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/api-without- secrets-introduction-to-vulkan-part-1.html and all 7 runs fine with lavapipe.