An OpenCL Frontend Written in Rust is Being Developed for Mesa | Linux Today

An OpenCL Frontend Written in Rust is Being Developed for Mesa

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Sep 22, 2021

Red Hat’s Karol Herbst—who is involved in the development of the Nouveau driver Mesa and the OpenCL open stack—has published rusticl , an experimental software implementation of OpenCL (OpenCL frontend) for Mesa written in Rust. Rusticl acts as an analogue of the frontend already present in Mesa OpenCL Clover and is also developed using the interface provided in Mesa Gallium.

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