INT64 Support Comes To Nouveau's Gallium3D Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Nouveau on 6 February 2017 at 12:38 AM EST. Add A Comment
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Ilia Mirkin's weekend hacking on the Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D driver has led to ARB_gpu_shader_int64 support coming for this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver.

ARB_gpu_shader_int64 is about supporting 64-bit scalar and vector integer data types for shaders and related 64-bit integer support for OpenGL. The Intel i965 Mesa driver has supported INT64 for Broadwell and newer, RadeonSI Gallium3D also has supported INT64, and there's been support in LLVMpipe/Softpipe too, while now it's been implemented for Nouveau.

However, as Mirkin explained, for now it's only being flipped on for pre-Maxwell hardware. "Everything should be ready to go on maxwell as well, but the sched code calculator ends up causing a lot of failures with the generated code. Since this is a fringe feature, leave it out until the sched code logic is improved."

The code for now can be found via Mesa-dev but should end up hitting Mesa Git soon enough, marking another feature for Mesa 17.1.
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