LLVM Adds A SPIR-V CPU Runner For Handling GPU Kernels On The CPU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Adds A SPIR-V CPU Runner For Handling GPU Kernels On The CPU

LLVM has merged an experimental MLIR-based SPIR-V CPU runner that the developers are working towards being able to handle CPU-based execution of GPU kernels...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-MLIR-SPIR-V-CPU-Runner

[tildearrow]

The biggest step towards Lavapipe completion

[lkcl]

d'y know what? this is really funny: it's exactly the kind of thing that we need (one of the pieces of the puzzle) for the hybrid CPU-GPU, LibreSOC.

initially we were planning to, for example, take the AMDGPU MESA driver and rip out the inter-processor pipe library, replacing it with "something" that executed native (host, CPU) JIT-compiled shader programs. and look! that seems to be exactly what this work is! so, thank you to the LLVM developers, very grateful that you've added this.

[Dr.N0]

Are graphics shaders supported or just compute kernels?