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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by shmerl on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:55PM (#24010643)
AMD document their ISA: https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#additional-documentat...

That's why third party open shader compilers like ACO could be made:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/tree/master/src/a...

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by moonchild on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:23PM (#24013532)
As does intel - https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/hardware-specific...
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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by makomk on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:11PM (#24013357)
AMD document their ISAs, but each one maps pretty much one-to-one onto a particular implementation. Compatibility and standardization are not goals.
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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by shmerl on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:36PM (#24013676)
As long as they make an open source compiler, there is at least a reference implementation to compare to.
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