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		shmerl on July 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy AR... AMD document their ISA: https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#additional-documentat... That's why third party open shader compilers like ACO could be made: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/tree/master/src/a...

moonchild on July 31, 2020 | [–]

As does intel - https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/hardware-specific...

makomk on July 31, 2020 | [–]

AMD document their ISAs, but each one maps pretty much one-to-one onto a particular implementation. Compatibility and standardization are not goals.

shmerl on July 31, 2020 | [–]

As long as they make an open source compiler, there is at least a reference implementation to compare to.

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