On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:05 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
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> Version 2 of the extension spec has been posted:
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> http://people.freedesktop.org/~idr/MESA_gpu_program3.txt
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> Unless anyone has major comments or objections, I think it's time to
> circulate this to down-stream users (e.g., Wine).  Who are the right
> contacts?

Ian,

Is the intention to fill the gap between where we are now and the NV
program4 extensions, or to start out on a new MESA-specific path which
would include later on a MESA_gpu_program4 extension?

The question is relevant because of things like condition-codes which
are in the NV GPU4 extension.  
  - If this is an intermediate step on the way to NV GPU4, then we
should probably prefer condition-codes over predicates.
  - If we expect to define a Mesa GPU4, then sticking with predicates is
fine.

I guess in either case the Mesa IR can opt to choose predicates over
cond-codes, but a great benefit of an extension like this is that we can
point at Mesa IR and say "the semantics of this language are documented
in MESA_gpu_program3".

IE. if you're not intending to provide a Mesa SM4 extension, it might be
better to stick closer to the NV usage for SM3 also.

Keith


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