Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

On 8/30/11, K. Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip@tutopia.com>
> wrote:
>> FWIW;
>>
>> Christopher Bergstr=F6m and Pathscale delivered the EKOPath
>> Compiler Suite, but no one followed up:
>>
>> (From the WantedPorts Wiki)
>> https://github.com/pathscale/path64-suite
>>

No one has contributed a port yet (a compiler port requires a lot of
care), but the compiler is being used by quite a few people, so I
doubt that Pathscale has been discouraged by the response.

>> There has been very low interest in the FreeBSD port,
>> and unfortunately this is a bad signal that we give to
>> companies that want to contribute :(.
>>
>
> The problem I have with that is that they only support the high-end
> computing variant of the card which I doubt any of us has. Without the
> documentation to extend the work to ordinary cards, e.g. my GTX460, it
> isn't that useful.

Yes, but native, high-quality code supporting some of the best
hardware would probably attract more interest in our OS as an HPC
platform, and Pathscale may be in a position to supply us, if not with
support for a wider range of hardware, at least with information and
advice on how to provide it -- perhaps with your missing documents.
So if you are interested, I'd urge you to get in touch with Bergstr=F6m.
This seems like the kind of project that would be worthy of an initial
investment from the FreeBSD Foundation and other interested parties.

b.
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