Re: [Mesa-dev] NLNet Funded development of a software/hardware MESA driver for the Libre GPGPU

2020-01-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, Jacob Lifshay wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:39 AM Jason Ekstrand > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:27 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton < > l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > >> jason i'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what jacob wrote, does > it alleviate

Re: [Mesa-dev] NLNet Funded development of a software/hardware MESA driver for the Libre GPGPU

2020-01-13 Thread Jacob Lifshay
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:39 AM Jason Ekstrand wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:27 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> jason i'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what jacob wrote, does it >> alleviate your concerns, (we're not designing hardware specifically around >> vec2/3

Re: [Mesa-dev] NLNet Funded development of a software/hardware MESA driver for the Libre GPGPU

2020-01-13 Thread Jason Ekstrand
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:27 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > On Monday, January 13, 2020, Jacob Lifshay > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:56 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> wrote: >> > >> >> > jacob perhaps you could clarify, here? >> >> So the major issue with the approac

Re: [Mesa-dev] NLNet Funded development of a software/hardware MESA driver for the Libre GPGPU

2020-01-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Monday, January 13, 2020, Jacob Lifshay wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:56 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > > > > jacob perhaps you could clarify, here? > > So the major issue with the approach AMDGPU took where the SIMT to > predicated vector translation is done by the LLVM bac

Re: [Mesa-dev] NLNet Funded development of a software/hardware MESA driver for the Libre GPGPU

2020-01-13 Thread Jacob Lifshay
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:56 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On 1/9/20, Jason Ekstrand wrote: > >> 2. as a flexible Vector Processor, soft-programmable, then over time if > >> the industry moves to dropping vec4, so can we. > >> > > > > That's very nice. My primary reason for sending t