[LLVMdev] LLVM as an OpenGL backend

[Owen Anderson]

> On Feb 11, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:06:10PM +0000, Sam Kellett wrote:
>> Would it be feasible to compile LLVM IR into shading language assembler? If
>> so, is this already being done?
>> 
> 
> The R600 backend does this in conjunction with the Open Source mesa3D
> project: http://www.mesa3d.org/ <http://www.mesa3d.org/>
> 
> Mesa has a glsl frontend that is used to emit LLVM IR for newer AMD
> GPUs, which is fed into the R600 backend to produce native GPU code.
> 
> Besides hardware accelerated drivers, the Mesa3d project also comes with a
> software based rasterizer, which does the same thing, but instead of the
> R600 backend it uses some of llvm's CPU backends.

I think he was asking about the other direction, from LLVM IR —> shading languages?

—Owen
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