Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Jan Vesely
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 22:27 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Jan Vesely jan.ves...@rutgers.edu wrote: On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 21:11 -0400, Rob Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rob

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Rob Clark
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Jan Vesely jan.ves...@rutgers.edu wrote: On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 21:11 -0400, Rob Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Jan Vesely
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 21:11 -0400, Rob Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Ilia Mirkin
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Jan Vesely jan.ves...@rutgers.edu wrote: On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 21:11 -0400, Rob Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Aditya Avinash
I mean, implementing fp64 on single precision systems. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to softfloat for GSOC. Is anyone working on it? Thank you!!

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Aditya Avinash
Do you know anyone working on it? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com wrote: I mean, implementing fp64 on single precision systems. Ok, That makes more sense! Having lowering

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Jason Ekstrand
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com wrote: I mean, implementing fp64 on single precision systems. Ok, That makes more sense! Having lowering passes for various FP64 operations would be great. --Jason On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Jason Ekstrand

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Ilia Mirkin
GL4-capable NVIDIA chips all support fp64 natively. Not sure about Intel, I believe there's partial support there. I didn't say there were no customers for it, merely to make sure that the work you're proposing would satisfy them :) On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Aditya Avinash

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Aditya Avinash
Hi, I would like to softfloat for GSOC. Is anyone working on it? Thank you!! :) On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Kenneth Graunke kenn...@whitecape.org wrote: On Monday, March 23, 2015 05:02:51 PM Aaron Watry wrote: On a related note, Has anyone ported shader-db over to working on

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Jason Ekstrand
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to softfloat for GSOC. Is anyone working on it? Thank you!! :) What do you mean by softfloat? If you're talking about doing software floating-point on the GPU, I don't think that's a thing. GPUs

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Ilia Mirkin
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com wrote: I mean, implementing fp64 on single precision systems. Ok, That makes more sense! Having lowering passes for various FP64 operations

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Aditya Avinash
What about Nouveau and Intel? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com wrote: I mean, implementing fp64 on

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Rob Clark
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com wrote: I mean, implementing fp64 on single precision systems. Ok,

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Aditya Avinash
Are you suggesting bringing OpenCL support for Adreno gpus and using softfloat? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Ilia Mirkin
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash adityaavina...@gmail.com

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Rob Clark
well, bringing compute to the other gallium drivers in general, beyond radeon, is probably an entire project on it's own.. but a very worthwhile project (IMHO).. since opencl (beyond embedded profile) requires double support, that probably also would expose the need for fp64 lowering in more

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-26 Thread Rob Clark
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rob Clark robdcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ilia Mirkin imir...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote:

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-23 Thread Jason Ekstrand
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Bruno Jimenez brunoji...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 16:37 -0700, Jason Ekstrand wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott cwabbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-23 Thread Jason Ekstrand
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Martin Peres martin.pe...@linux.intel.com wrote: On 19/03/15 01:37, Jason Ekstrand wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott cwabbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12,

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-23 Thread Ilia Mirkin
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Watry awa...@gmail.com wrote: On a related note, Has anyone ported shader-db over to working on R600/RadeonSI/anything non-intel? I've been meaning to take a look at the NIR-TGSI pass and see if there's an easy way to hook it up to the radeon drivers,

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-23 Thread Aaron Watry
On a related note, On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Jason Ekstrand ja...@jlekstrand.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Bruno Jimenez brunoji...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 16:37 -0700, Jason Ekstrand wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-23 Thread Ian Romanick
On 03/19/2015 12:28 AM, Martin Peres wrote: On 16/03/15 18:32, Laura Ekstrand wrote: That was basically my background (mechanical engineering + lots of OpenGL) when I started six months ago, but I have found the lack of mentoring to be a large roadblock. At that time, I wrote tests, but

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-23 Thread Bruno Jimenez
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 16:37 -0700, Jason Ekstrand wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott cwabbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-23 Thread Kenneth Graunke
On Monday, March 23, 2015 05:02:51 PM Aaron Watry wrote: On a related note, Has anyone ported shader-db over to working on R600/RadeonSI/anything non-intel? I've been meaning to take a look at the NIR-TGSI pass and see if there's an easy way to hook it up to the radeon drivers, but I wanted

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-19 Thread Martin Peres
On 19/03/15 01:37, Jason Ekstrand wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott cwabbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some ideas I think might

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-19 Thread Martin Peres
On 17/03/15 22:50, Bruno Jimenez wrote: Hi, Last year, I participated in GSoC, (yeah, I still read the mailing list every day :) ) so I will give my 2 cents to the topic. My background isn't at all related to graphics or computer science, I am a physicist, although my main interest is in

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-19 Thread Martin Peres
On 16/03/15 18:32, Laura Ekstrand wrote: That was basically my background (mechanical engineering + lots of OpenGL) when I started six months ago, but I have found the lack of mentoring to be a large roadblock. At that time, I wrote tests, but there were few people willing to review them and

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-18 Thread Connor Abbott
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. - GLSL linking in NIR - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-18 Thread Jason Ekstrand
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott cwabbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. - GLSL linking

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-18 Thread Aditya Avinash
Hi, I am looking for a GSOC project. I am interested in working on driver. Hardware available: All AMD gpus (+1 APU) NVIDIA k40, GTX780, Quadro 3500, GT755M Intel: Haswell (buying on next pay date) On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-18 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. - GLSL linking in NIR - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive things on GLSL IR Ian said this should wait until everything is

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-17 Thread Bruno Jimenez
Hi, Last year, I participated in GSoC, (yeah, I still read the mailing list every day :) ) so I will give my 2 cents to the topic. My background isn't at all related to graphics or computer science, I am a physicist, although my main interest is in simulation. So that took me to OpenCL, which in

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-16 Thread Marek Olšák
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Laura Ekstrand la...@jlekstrand.net wrote: We should try to steer people away from just writing Piglit tests for GSoC, unless they have a specific mentor in mind and have already talked to him or her. In my experience, Piglit tests are difficult to do well

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-16 Thread Martin Peres
On 13/03/15 19:24, Laura Ekstrand wrote: We should try to steer people away from just writing Piglit tests for GSoC, unless they have a specific mentor in mind and have already talked to him or her. In my experience, Piglit tests are difficult to do well because each one is drastically

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-16 Thread Laura Ekstrand
That was basically my background (mechanical engineering + lots of OpenGL) when I started six months ago, but I have found the lack of mentoring to be a large roadblock. At that time, I wrote tests, but there were few people willing to review them and give timely feedback. I was advised to go

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-13 Thread Laura Ekstrand
We should try to steer people away from just writing Piglit tests for GSoC, unless they have a specific mentor in mind and have already talked to him or her. In my experience, Piglit tests are difficult to do well because each one is drastically different from the others and involves cultivating

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-13 Thread Timothy Arceri
On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 01:06 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. - GLSL linking in NIR - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive things

[Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-12 Thread Matt Turner
Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. - GLSL linking in NIR - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive things on GLSL IR - SSA in the i965/fs backend, and an SSA-based register allocator - Improve instruction scheduling in i965 (Nouveau has

Re: [Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

2015-03-12 Thread Ilia Mirkin
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. - GLSL linking in NIR - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive things on GLSL IR - SSA in the i965/fs backend, and an SSA-based