Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:12:14 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> Cc: giffunip@tutopia.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up Message-ID: <CAGFTUwMO5dwjeLOvXeBw8bVyEG5v2jNGM10v0jAppkWhJm9MpQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHM0Q_Ovc=qC7mFM49HQ7-rRdHSQKCqce=-U=wkrEdz560EO1Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <1314733660.22981.YahooMailClassic@web113503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <CAHM0Q_Ovc=qC7mFM49HQ7-rRdHSQKCqce=-U=wkrEdz560EO1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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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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