[libre-riscv-dev] Vulkanizing

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Wed Feb 19 12:00:49 GMT 2020


On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, Atif Zafar <atif at pixilica.com> wrote:

That's awesome! I think a general purpose language with vector extensions
> would be very cool to run on such an architecture.


yeah absolutely.  no only could the decoding of the function be
accelerated, so could its display.



> I am working with some very prominent people to make this all happen. An
> open source RISC-V graphics ISA is the first step :-)


well, unfortunately for the RISCV community because the RV Foundation has
acted so irresponsibly and negligently there may be an EU anti trust
investigation underway at some point, particularly as EU Horizon 2020 Grant
money has been wasted by the RV Foundation systematically refusing to
respond to our in good faith requests to be involved in innovation in a
transparent fashion.

so we will press ahead with a POWER graphics ISA.

Hugh, the Director of OPF is looking for the right people for us to talk to
so that we can do the first step of proposing a "namespace" extension
opcode for POWER ISA.

l.




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