[llvm-dev] SPIRV-LLVM as an external tool (original) (raw)

Tomeu Vizoso via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Feb 21 00:15:34 PST 2018

Hi,

for a few months already I have been asking around for opinions on how people could best work together on Khronos' SPIR-V <-> LLVM-IR converter and some consensus seems to have formed.

Most of the people I talked to favored having the converter become an external tool within the LLVM project, similar to libclc. I think that the LLVM project's processes, infrastructure and community form the best place for this collaboration to happen.

I hope that having the converter as part of LLVM can help expand LLVM's value proposition in heterogeneous computing, in part by complementing the OpenCL C backend in clang.

Thus I would like to ask what the LLVM community needs to see from us before SPIRV-LLVM can be accepted as an external tool, if at all.

Thanks,

Tomeu

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