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[bridgman]

That's what I was wondering - some of the benchmarks have started linking with Intel's MKL, which AFAIK runs different code paths for non-Intel CPUs.

[bridgman]

I think the usual solution for this is to maintain the documentation in the source tree so it tracks the source code you are using.

I went...

[bridgman]

Are you sure ? My understanding was that the same options were available no matter which kernel driver was used.



Yep, adding...

[bridgman]

The drivers inherit & share code "forward" not "backward" (since newer drivers are written after the earlier drivers) so shared...

[bridgman]

The code implementing the debug option is in the r600 mesa driver, and options generally follow the name of the driver they appear in. The "radeon"...

[bridgman]

Yes and no - we could definitely create a separate version of the microcode but in order to use it you would still need toolchain support allowing you...

[bridgman]

AFAIK there are two separate considerations related to RAM speed.

The first is the usual "faster RAM gives more bandwidth / lower latency"...

[bridgman]

We definitely want to be able to pull community changes back into the main trees. It will not be automatic though, since the shared code supports other...

[bridgman]

Pretty much... I said that we expected 60-70% of the fglrx driver performance as long as we were limited to a "dumb" shader translator rather...

[bridgman]

Which topic ?

1. Opening up all the microcode for existing chips, ie risking most of our current markets (those which require robust security...

[bridgman]

It's not a question of "can't seem to fix it" but rather "haven't seen it". We are checking with QA to see what coverage we have on...

[bridgman]

Can I ask you to take another look at this ? 6-12 months ago what you say was certainly the case; new GL features were being added and so it wasn't unusual...

[bridgman]

Not as surprising as you might think... the closed source driver team focus is on the workstation side more than on Linux gaming these days, while the...

[bridgman]

Are you saying there is a sufficiently large market for people demanding open-ish hardware to justify implementing a separate set of chips ?
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[bridgman]

Fixed that for you....

[bridgman]

The buttons all just send emails - what am I supposed to be looking at ?...

[bridgman]

Are you speaking from your own perspective or from the perspective of "joe average" ?

I'm not saying that "joe average"...

[bridgman]

Right... so that tells you our expected timeframe for open sourcing the Vulkan driver is under a year.



That soon is shorter...

[bridgman]

We have pretty much zero reported overlap between Debian users and 3D workstation users... do you disagree ?

That said, IIRC Debian 9 is...

[bridgman]

Ahh, I see... you're basing your timelines on "when we first talked about it" rather than "when we started working on it". Not a good...