> our driver should follow Linux’s best practices like upstream development. That includes using the New Intermediate Representation (NIR) in Mesa, the home fo

> our driver should follow Linux’s best practices like upstream development. That includes using the New Intermediate Representation (NIR) in Mesa, the home for open source graphics drivers. NIR is a lightweight library for shader compilers, with a GLSL frontend I remember when building everything on LLVM bytecode was best practice. It wouldn't be the Linux ecosystem without continual reinvention of the wheel, would it?