On 11/20/2015 11:36 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi Samual, et al,
Hi Hans,
In
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/src/gallium/drivers/nouveau?id=ff72440b40211326eda118232fabd53965410afd
you write: "This compute support has been tested by
Pierre Moreau and myself with some compute kernels."
Can you provide testing instructions (and the
necessary files) so that I can try to reproduce
your tests ?
And once I've reproduced your tests, the next
question is where / how did you get the compute
kernels for testing. I guess you manually wrote them ?
Yeah, I wrote those compute kernels directly in assembly by hand.
I already said few days ago, you have some examples in
src/gallium/tests/trivial/compute.c which show how to use that compute
support stuff with TGSI kernels and without clover. Because clover is
not currently able to do OpenCL -> TGSI using Clang/LLVM, you can't
really use your backend directly.
An other way to achieve what you need is to copy/paste your TGSI kernel
in src/gallium/tests/trivial/compute.c, set up the global buffers and
other stuff (maybe samplers, textures and so on) yourself. This is a bit
painful but should work as expected.
As you know I'm working on a llvm tgsi backend,
it actually produces some output now, if you want
to take a peek it lives here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/llvm
I'm currently building your TGSI branch. :-)
Before working further on this I want to take
a bottom up approach, so I want to first make
sure we've working TGSI -> compute-kernel and
compute-kernel -> hardware steps. So the next
question is, do you know if we can go from
(manually written) TGSI to a compute-kernel
using say nouveau-compiler ?
Sure, you can use nouveau-compiler to convert TGSI to NV50 IR, but as I
said, you can't directly execute your compute kernel without setting a
ton of stuff before... That's a bunch of fun! :-)
Btw, do you still need compute support on your GK208? or did you have an
other card for testing ?
And if not, do you know what is missing to do
this?
Thanks & Regards,
Hans
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