An Important Radeon R600 Change In LLVM 3.4

While LLVM 3.3 hasn’t even been released yet, there’s already an important change found in LLVM 3.4 for Radeon R600 GPU users…
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AMD Optimizes Bitcoin Mining On R600 LLVM OpenCL

Earlier this month I wrote about Bitcoin Mining coming to the open-source Radeon Linux GPU driver. In the weeks since, Tom Stellard of AMD has made more improvements to the AMD R600 LLVM back-end that benefit the performance of Bitcoin mining…
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AMD R600 Gallium3D Optimizing Back-End Merged

Vadim Girlin’s shader-optimizing back-end for the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver has been merged into mainline Mesa…
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R600 LLVM Back-End Gets Indirect Addressing Support

The open-source Radeon R600 LLVM back-end has finally received support for indirect memory addressing…
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R600 Gallium3D Getting Close On OpenGL 3.3 Support

The open-source AMD “R600g” Gallium3D driver is slowly but surely closing in on OpenGL 3.3 support for this open-source Linux graphics driver that supports from the Radeon HD 2000 through Radeon HD 6000 GPUs…
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UBO+TBO Support Comes To Radeon R600 Gallium3D

David Airlie recently published UBO and TBO patches for Gallium3D that allowed the Softpipe driver to work with the OpenGL Uniform Buffer Object and Texture Buffer Object features. Airlie has now worked on AMD’s R600 Gallium3D driver to support these OpenGL 3.x features as part of GLSL 1.40 support…
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Cleaning Up The R600 Gallium3D Driver

Marek Olšák, the well-known independent contributor to Mesa that’s made a great deal of enhancements to the Radeon driver stack over the past few years, has a new patch-set. The latest patch-set he published last night cleans up the R600g driver and reworks its cache flushing code. This patch-set affects more than 2,000 lines of code, which is significant for this open-source Gallium3D driver..

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R600 Gallium3D Can Now Do OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30

Marek Olšák has made another exciting commit to the Mesa mainline Git repository this weekend… What he’s accomplished now is making it possible to successfully advertise OpenGL 3.0 / GLSL 1.30 support within the R600 Gallium3D driver for the Radeon HD 2000 series and later…

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