[vtk-developers] VTK dashboards master branch failures

[Ken Martin]

I believe llvmpipe should fully work as long as it is not through OS mesa.
But regular recent mesa with llvmpipe 3.6 or so is supposed to work from
what I have heard.

Ken

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 08:44:23 -0500, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
>> > Yes, sorry I was out for a conference. The megas has some driver issue
>> as
>> > told by Ben and therefore it runs fewer tests than any other dashboard
>> > machine.
>>
>> Not really an 'issue' with the driver; Mesa with llvmpipe just doesn't
>> support everything needed for raycasting (yet?). The only other failures
>> are actual bugs which Ken is aware of (but are also ignored since they
>> aren't on a list to be addressed sooner).
>>
>
> Ah, I see so this is related to Mesa issue that we (on paraview) were
> discussing. Can you update your Mesa
> to use the latest master (or 11.1 with patch from Utkarsh?) and see if we
> can run all of the ray-casting tests again?
>
>>
>> > The test was only failing on megas but passing on all other
>> > dashboards with similar configurations (OS). I was going to follow up
>> with
>> > Ben on this, so your help is appreciated here.
>>
>> Please ping me on these branches so that I can mark them this way
>> *before* they land in master (I'm trying to make it so that a green
>> dashboard is expected rather than having those one or two builds which
>> are "oh, those always fail").
>>
>
> Sure, if you think we can solve this by upgrading to newer mesa, that
> would be great, or else, I will ping you on the upcoming branches (one is
> coming soon).
>
> Thanks
>
>
>>
>> --Ben
>>
>
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