[Mesa-dev] Compute shader support in LLVMpipe and/or OpenSWR?

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:48 PM, A223 A223 <andj2223 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:58 PM, A223 A223 <andj2223 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was curious if there are any near/medium-term plans to add compute
>> shader support to the following:
>>
>> llvmpipe?
>> openswr?
>
> CCing Ilia Mirkin, as I feel you may know something about this for
> SWR... Thank you.

I'm not aware of any plans. The biggest issue is how to properly
support barriers, which means some sort of state execution
suspend/resume is necessary inside the shaders, since a thread group
may be up to 1024-wide.

  -ilia