R600/SI Patchset: Initial support for compute shaders

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:20 -0700, Tom Stellard wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 05:24:36PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> > >
> > >2. Allows us to pass 64-bit pointer values to the shader and avoid
> > >having to deal with arithmetic on 128-bit pointers.  This might not be
> > >too hard to solve, but it would require some additional work.
> > 
> > Why not use the ADDR64 bit in the MUBUF for this instead? If I'm not
> > completely wrong the resource destribtor can be just a "S_MOV_B64 0"
> > in this case.
> 
> This was my first approach, but even with the ADDR64 bit I couldn't
> get the instructions to work unless I added the number and data format
> to the resource descriptor. 

Could MTBUF work for this instead of MUBUF? The former takes the number
and data format as instruction operands.


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