[LLVMdev] [RFC] Upstreaming LLVM/SPIR-V converter

[David Chisnall]

On 15 May 2015, at 17:53, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com> wrote:
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> +1 to lib/Target/SPIRV/(Reader|Writer)
> 
> I really like this idea. I’ve talked with some people on both the LLVM and Khronos sides and I really think adding SPIR-V support to LLVM as an optional program serialization format would be fantastic. I think it would make it even easier for LLVM-based tools to be integrated into GPU authoring and execution pipelines.

Agreed.  Unlike HSAIL, SPIR-V looks like a very sane design and having an in-tree serialisation format that’s stable across LLVM versions is likely to make SPIR-V useful for a number of things outside of its initial scope.

David