Kraid is a now a real compiler

(collabora.com)

27 points | by losgehts 4 days ago ago

8 comments

  • pianoben 5 hours ago

    I'm very confused as to what Kraid actually does and who it's for. It's a compiler of some sort, but for what? GLSL? What's significant about it beyond the target backends?

    • elehack 4 hours ago

      Kraid is the shader compiler for Panfrost, the Mesa driver for Arm Mali GPUs: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/panfrost.html

      • pianoben an hour ago

        So Panfrost is an OpenGL ES implementation for Mali-type GPUs then? Thank you for that. Still confused about the role of a compiler here because I'm uninformed. So Kraid is a GLSL compiler that is specific to those GPUs? Neat.

  • joshmarinacci 3 hours ago

    What devices are likely to benefit from Kraid? Are Arm Mali GPUs mostly in Android phones?

  • mock-possum 5 hours ago

    Next step is obviously to build Ridley

  • jdw64 5 hours ago

    800,000 test??? wow So if I can use Kriad, does that mean I can build AI without having to use NVIDIA chips

    • Azantys 3 hours ago

      You already can with AMD/Intel gpus. Kraid is a compiler for Arm Mali which is mostly used on mobile stuff, nothing AI related.