Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's Gallium3D LLVMpipe Driver Adds Compute Shader Support

Red Hat's David Airlie has been refocusing efforts recently on improving the state of the LLVMpipe driver that implements OpenGL / OpenGL ES on top of CPUs using LLVM. In the past few weeks he's been wiring up more GL4 / GLES 3.1 extensions and this morning the latest achievement is supporting OpenGL compute shaders!..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVMpipe-Does-Compute-Shaders

[schmidtbag]

I'd be really curious to see how software rasterizers work on those new dual-CPU Epyc servers you have. Obviously, its woefully impractical, but I think it'd be pretty interesting.

[Neverending25]

Following a long series of patches, Airlie has OpenGL compute shader support working for LLVMpipe in tandem with various LLVM/Gallivm changes.

spelling

[pal666]

spelling

not really. vm from llvm

[Teggs]

spelling

Caesar approves.

You won't argue with Caesar, will you?