[libre-riscv-dev] Vulkanizing

[Immanuel, Yehowshua U]

So from here: https://libre-riscv.org/3d_gpu/architecture/

The basic principle: the front-end ISA is variable-length Vectorised, with a hardware-level for-loop in front of a predicated SIMD backend suite of ALUs. Instructions issued at the front-end are first SIMD-grouped, then the remaining "elements" (or groups of SIMD'd elements) are thrown at the multi-issue OoO execution engine and the augmented-6600 Matrices left to their own devices.

Um, how many ALUs are we targting?

32? 64?

I like the dependency matrix thing - that’s pretty simple to implement, should be passably performant...

Yehowshua