Etnaviv Gallium3D Picks Up A NIR Compiler

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Etnaviv Gallium3D Picks Up A NIR Compiler

07 August 2019, 12:20 AM

Phoronix: Etnaviv Gallium3D Picks Up A NIR Compiler

Landing on Tuesday ahead of this week's Mesa 19.2 feature freeze is an experimental NIR compiler for the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver that provides open-source OpenGL driver support for Vivante graphics IP...

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07 August 2019, 03:42 PM

On a related note, the Vivante GC7000 graphics IP used in the i.XM8M which will be found in the Librem 5 has been certified for Vulkan
https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products/vulkan#submission_3
Maybe their Vulkan driver is based on NIR, and they are working on upstreaming it all now?
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