[libre-riscv-dev] NLNet Funded development of a software/hardware MESA driver for the Libre GPGPU

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:34:48AM +0800, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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> the NLNet funding application documented here was successful:
> https://libre-riscv.org/nlnet_2019_amdvlk_port/
> 
> we therefore have money (direct payment of tax free, tax deductible
> donations from the NLNet Foundation into your bank account [1]) available
> for anyone, anywhere in the world, to help create a 3D MESA Vulkan
> compliant driver for a hybrid hard-soft GPU.

Does it make sense for the hardware to execute Vulkan bytecode directly?

-- hendrik