Hi,
I'd like to complement Jason's excellent answer with some code
examples.
ac_nir_to_llvm is used by two drivers, RADV and RadeonSI.
Each of them have a driver-specific implementation of the shader ABI.
For RADV's implementation, take a look at llvm_compile_shader in
radv_nir_to_llvm.c and to
Possibly worth noting as another point for reference is that zink also uses
variables.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 11:08 AM Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> First off, I should point out that the AMD NIR -> LLVM translator is,
> as far as I know, the only NIR back-end that consumes variables at
> all. Most ba
First off, I should point out that the AMD NIR -> LLVM translator is,
as far as I know, the only NIR back-end that consumes variables at
all. Most back-ends assume that all variable access is completely
lowered away before the back-end ever sees it. How this is done
depends on the variable mode.
I see that
visit_load_var() in ~/mesa/src/amd/llvm/ac_nir_to_llvm.c
assumes that nir_variable used in this intrinsic can have few specific mods
only.
For example variable can not have nir_var_mem_shared , if such mod
encountered it will execute unreachable() code.
Is there any nir pass that need
