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

[Ilia Mirkin]

GL4-capable NVIDIA chips all support fp64 natively. Not sure about
Intel, I believe there's partial support there. I didn't say there
were no customers for it, merely to make sure that the work you're
proposing would satisfy them :)

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Aditya Avinash
<adityaavinash1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about Nouveau and Intel?
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Aditya Avinash
>> > <adityaavinash1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I mean, implementing fp64 on single precision systems.
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>> > Ok, That makes more sense!  Having lowering passes for various FP64
>> > operations would be great.
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>> We should make sure that there are customers of such work. It only
>> makes sense to do this when everything else but FP64 are supported for
>> GL 4.0 (including tess). r600 (eg/ni) is an obvious customer, although
>> that may be easier to do in sb (I believe GlennK has been looking at
>> it, not sure how far he's gotten). Other than that... not sure. Could
>> be that Adreno A420 can do tess && has no native fp64 support, still
>> need to figure that out (hasn't been RE'd yet).
>>
>>   -ilia
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