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Mesa Developers To Work Toward Eliminating TGSI IR

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What happened

TGSI was the intermediate representation (IR) developed for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers by Tungsten Graphics at the time. It worked fine more than a decade ago but since then the Mesa front-ends and hardware drivers have largely transitioned over to the superior NIR format.

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