Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:02:07PM +0000, James wrote:
> Howdy one and all,
> 
> Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle
> to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)...
> 
> 
> But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me
> from time to time, called me in the middle of the night.
> He, being an eceptionally bright and difficult humnoid; would 
> not shut up at what AMD is doing.
> 
> Finally it seems that an open source, raw hardware access
> API is going to allow truely unfettered access to the
> computational blocks inside of a GPU. (ok now I was awake).
> 
> Upon googing this am, I do see quite a buzz, particularly
> since all Nvidia would have to do, is decide to implement
> the open source -- open standard access to the bare metal
> of the GPU. This should not be taken likely as it is akin 
> to all of the FPGA hardware folks giving away the billions
> of dollars in IP, software and integration tools that make
> building a custom processor, possible. Those tools are locked
> away, due to expense and the business approach of hardware
> vendors asking for money each time they reveal the tricks,
> trade secrets and heuritical methods to build low level components.
> 
> What this means is that MANTLE is a game changer and opens
> up "bare metal access" to multitudes of ordinary computational
>  and recreatioal computer weenies....(whoa Pee!)
> 
> 
> If this is true, it is a GAME CHANGERS (could not resist the pun).
> 
> 
> So:
> A. it is time for me to dig into this issue.
> B. Are any of the folks on this list working to get
> Mantle support available on Gentoo?
> C. Anyone tested one of the "Hawaii" radeon cards?
> D. Anyone working on running SteamOS virtualize on (gentoo) linux?
> 
> 
> as always, your thoughts are most welcome
> 
> James
> 
> [1]
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049369/amd-nvidia-ramp-up-linux-driver-support-after-valves-steamos-announcement.html
> 
> [2] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-api-gcn-battlefield-4,24418.html

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