[libre-riscv-dev] https://libre-riscv.org/resources/ page

[Michael Pham]

I forgot the to link in my last reply :)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-On-SwiftShader

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 4:46 PM Michael Pham <pham.michael.98 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry if I'm missing something, but isn't SwiftShader also a graphics
> driver? At least, that's what the second page says of the PDF that
> Luke linked. Although it says on that second page that it is a
> graphics driver for CPUs, but Libre RISC-V is a combined CPU/GPU,
> which is why I thought it was similar to Kazan but more general
> purpose.
>
> By the way, I found this Phoronix article that mentions Kazan as a
> similar effort to SwiftShader (in the last paragraph).
>
> Michael
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 4:27 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 12:17 Michael Pham <pham.michael.98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:09 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> > > <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 9:38 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> > > > <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > https://libre-riscv.org/resources/
> > > > >
> > > > > with thanks to michael for creating this page.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/2019-siggraph/Vulkan-11-SwiftShader-Update-SIGGRAPH_Jul19.pdf
> > > >
> > > > oo that is *very* interesting.
> > > >
> > >
> > > How so? I haven't heard of it before but on first glance, seems to
> > > have the same purpose as Kazan except more general purpose.
> > >
> >
> > Kazan is intended to be a graphics driver for the libre-riscv gpu as well
> > as a software renderer. SwiftShader is intended to map graphics APIs onto
> > other graphics APIs and also supports software rendering.
> >
> > Jacob
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