[LLVMdev] [RFC] Upstreaming LLVM/SPIR-V converter

Chris Lattner
Sat, 16 May 2015 05:42:50 -0000

> On May 15, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com>
wrote:
>
> +1 to lib/Target/SPIRV/(Reader|Writer)
>
> I really like this idea. I’ve talked with some people on both the LLVM and
Khronos sides and I really think adding SPIR-V support to LLVM as an optional
program serialization format would be fantastic. I think it would make it even
easier for LLVM-based tools to be integrated into GPU authoring and execution
pipelines.

I’m not that familiar with SPIRV, but if it really is a serialization format,
then why isn’t it a parallel to llvm/lib/Bitcode?

-Chris