[Intel-gfx] CUDA port for intel graphics

2010-06-23 Thread Gregory Diamos
Hi, My name is Gregory Diamos. I am a PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology currently working on compiler backends for performing general purpose computation on GPU architectures. My research group at Georgia Tech (CASL) group develops and maintains the Ocelot backend compiler

Re: [Intel-gfx] CUDA port for intel graphics

2010-06-23 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Gregory, I think most of your questions can be answered by reading the [interface] design document for GEM - the Graphics Execution Manager. http://lwn.net/Articles/283798/ That will give you a better idea of the separation of the execution and memory management which is performed by the

Re: [Intel-gfx] CUDA port for intel graphics

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:14:39 -0700, Gregory Diamos gregory.dia...@gatech.edu wrote: 1. Is there an interface for writing directly to the GPU ring buffer that is exposed by the driver? If not, would it be straightforward to add such an interface? Take a look at 'drm' in the mesa git