Kraid is a now a real compiler (collabora.com)

25 points by losgehts 4 days ago

8 comments:

by pianoben 4 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?

by 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

by 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.

by joshmarinacci 3 hours ago

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

by mock-possum 4 hours ago

Next step is obviously to build Ridley

by lemoncucumber 2 hours ago

And an LLM named Motherbrain perhaps?

by 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

by Azantys 2 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.

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