[Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Thu Mar 26 12:02:25 PDT 2015


On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash
<adityaavinash1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I mean, implementing fp64 on single precision systems.

Ok, That makes more sense!  Having lowering passes for various FP64
operations would be great.
--Jason

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Aditya Avinash
>> <adityaavinash1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I would like to softfloat for GSOC. Is anyone working on it?
>> > Thank you!! :)
>>
>> What do you mean by softfloat?  If you're talking about doing software
>> floating-point on the GPU, I don't think that's a thing.  GPUs
>> frequently don't support integers, but they all support float.
>> --Jason
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> Regards,
> Aditya Atluri,
> USA.
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