The Newest Mesa NIR/SPIR-V Code For Handling OpenCL Kernels

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Newest Mesa NIR/SPIR-V Code For Handling OpenCL Kernels

It's now been nearly one year since longtime Nouveau contributor Karol Herbst joined Red Hat where one of his big projects has been working on OpenCL support for this open-source NVIDIA driver by bringing up NIR/SPIR-V support and making the necessary improvements for allowing OpenCL kernels to be represented in that IR commonly used by the Mesa drivers. The work still isn't yet in Mesa Git, but Karol this week sent out his newest patches...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=November-OpenCL-SPIR-V-NIR

[yurikoles]

Michael

would be collaborating on some open-source efforts

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[Michael]

Michael

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Fixed, thanks.

[tildearrow]

Michael

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There is, but there is a typo in the HTML holding it.

[yurikoles]

There is, but there is a typo in the HTML holding it.

It was fixed already.

[ms178]

With IBM buying Red Hat and the deep collaboration between Nvidia and IBM on OpenPower makes me think that the signed firmware situation might improve in the future as they need some open users for things like HMM. And it would look better if it performs well. But as it is Nvidia, they could limit their effort on their professional GPUs though.