[Replicant] Status of Mesa's llvmpipe for Android

[Joonas Kylmälä]

Hi dllud,

thanks for the research! As we can see in
https://github.com/maurossi/mesa/commit/f7c2a171a4320a5a713861440f5f3df2611d7b1e
the change in Android build files to make llvmpipe work might be
relatively small. Because this doesn't appear a to be huge amount of
work and maintanance burden I would try this first and if things don't
work out then we could try SwiftShader.

Joonas

dllud:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Mauro Rossi from the Android-x86 project had the kindness to give a detailed reply to my inquiry about llvmpipe's status on Android builds.
> 
> Since all this is public information I am forwarding Mauro's email bellow for future reference.
> 
> Summing it up: llvmpipe is not building for Android and there's not a single project using it. Replicant will/would be the only project using llvmpipe on Android. The burden of maintaining it would thus come down to Replicant for the foreseeable future.
> 
> It is worth considering having all software rendering done just through Google's SwiftShader. Keeping Mesa around just to use Lima or Panfrost.
> Some people, me included, are not comfortable with relying solely on a Google project. Past experience (libAGL) told us that it can quickly get deprecated.
> I will rise this discussion on IRC.