[Libre-soc-dev] Loading Vulkan Driver

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020, 17:08 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

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> On Monday, August 24, 2020, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> amdgpu is completely scalar,
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> it is?? waah! that's new information to me.  does it even squash vec2/3/4,
> predication and swizzle?
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yes, iirc.

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> what about the upstream amdgpu LLVM-IR?  that still preserves vector
> intrinsics, right?
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> i'm assuming that AMDVLK preserves vector intrinsics?
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> AMDVLK's associated LLVM port was what ended up upstream, is that right?
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no, that is the existing LLVM backend from AMD's opengl/opencl drivers.
amdvlk came later.

Jacob