From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 04:12:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8C31065673 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f45.google.com (mail-pz0-f45.google.com [209.85.210.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902948FC17 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so955774pzk.18 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:12:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BuXwnnRiA7bJ/gImqV/5NVVSTY2Lm2nE9bScxoCdDTY=; b=pnj0J0z+zpMW0REdu1/TfgUyAxNxuBKh6AFef/0JbC3f0VczA4S4yV9NQrMzjBUgiB llpahkKEMtumV9yTAOQBVv8z90ufMiHlt3pFkd9o5q6p+KvZSKECwOk2bcWvLaNyVZaG W5GXSNl6cRLHSWiOMNiI824m/KZYSzQrmp+Bk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.43.21 with SMTP id q21mr3763964wfq.64.1314763934991; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.166.13 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:12:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1314733660.22981.YahooMailClassic@web113503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:12:14 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: "K. Macy" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: giffunip@tutopia.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:12:15 -0000 On 8/30/11, K. Macy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni > 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.