That's good, if it will accelerate development of stuff like Vulkan rendering for Kwin.

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I dunno, it's not very much . . . only A Handful of Missions. Be nice if there were A Few Missions More.

A bunch of references to the Dollars Trilogy there. One of the villains looks like Angel Eyes from The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

The boiler plate armor is a reference to the The Fistful of Dollars.

Music themes are also very Ennio Morricone style.

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There is an MR to fix this llvm flag: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38558 [External Link]

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Yeah, radeonsi switched to aco by default not long ago.

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Well, it's only for AMD (radv / radeonsi + aco). I'd imagine llvm might be needed for other GPU drivers.

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yeah, meson is confusing with false vs disabled. disabled is probably fine for it.

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May be I'll open a Mesa bug to suggest the above.

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Interesting issue i trying compile without llvm but in my case dont work show llvm is required for radeonsi

It works fine without llvm now. Radeonsi recently switched to aco compiler by default. You need to configure the build with meson to turn off build dependency on llvm like this:

...
-D llvm=false \
-D amd-use-llvm=false \
...

Not sure why they didn't make the second switch be automatically set to false when the first switch is false, may be they'll fix it, but for now the above works.

If build fails, I recommend reading meson.build to figure out why. The above was clear just by reading the file.

See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/meson.build?ref_type=heads#L226 [External Link]

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A few cool things happened recently:

* Wine finally works without dependencies on 32-bit.
* AMD drivers (radv and more importantly radeonsi) now work without any dependencies on llvm, so you can build AMD related Mesa without installing llvm either.

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GPU: Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs

Kind of surprised they didn't wait for AMD's UDNA based APUs or at least didn't use RDNA 4 based ones. But it's still better than Steam Deck's GPU.

About 8 GB VRAM I'm confused. Is it an APU or a discrete GPU? If the former, APU can use RAM itself for VRAM. May be it has extra dedicated VRAM? But if it's a discrete GPU, then 8 GB VRAM is tight.

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