[Libre-soc-dev] LLVM Adds A SPIR-V CPU Runner For Handling GPU Kernels On The CPU

[vivek pandya]

 My discussion about nir on mesa-dev
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2020-October/224674.html
Incase someone finds it helpful.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:45 AM vivek pandya <vivekvpandya at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 4:45 AM Cole Poirier <colepoirier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Monday, October 26, 2020, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
>> wrote:
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>> > On 10/26/20, Cole Poirier <colepoirier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Obviously not comparable to Kazan, but interesting for debugging
>> purposes
>> > > at least.
>> >
>> > no, it's exactly what we need.  it was one of the missing pieces, once
>> > the Shader binary is compiled, how do you execute it (in the
>> > CPU-which-is-also-a-GPU) and as best i can tell that's precisely what
>> > this is.
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>> Oh that’s fantastic! Maybe I should reach out to its developers and see if
>> they would be interested in doing similar work but paid by NLNET for our
>> project? i.e. working on Kazan or its Mesa cpp equivalent?
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> Just be transparent, my work on this side has been stalled for a while, I
> have tried to copy AMDGPU's NIR-to-LLVM converting code (either converter
> is so big code or my engineering skills are so bad), I started with basic
> arithmetic instructions and few intrinsics
> however when trying a simple shader I found there are still lots of basic
> intrinsics missing and I have to add them before I could see LLVM IR
> generated.
> if I could find some time and get something ready I will commit it.
>
> Also there is bit difference in the approach taken by me and AMDGPU's LLVM
> codegen . I am using a ORCJit instance and just trying to get LLVM IR for
> now.
> AMDGPU team has created a complete LLVM codegen pipeline where they can
> even choose to schedule some optimization and generate AMD assembly.
>
>
> -Vivek
>
>>
>> Cole
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