SPIR-V Support For Upstream LLVM Is Back To Being Discussed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SPIR-V Support For Upstream LLVM Is Back To Being Discussed

Next month the Vulkan 1.0 API will turn two years old but a goal that has remained elusive to date has been getting SPIR-V -- the intermediate representation shared by Vulkan and OpenCL -- into upstream LLVM...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-SPIR-V-2018-Talk

[carewolf]

But wasn't SPIR-V based off LLVM's intermediate representation to begin with?

[Azpegath]

I don't understand either, what is the functional use for this specific "support"?

[Michael]

But wasn't SPIR-V based off LLVM's intermediate representation to begin with?

SPIR (non-V, originally just for OpenCL) was based off LLVM IR. SPIR-V is a clean sheet design.