Astro Hacker News - Kraid is a now a real compiler

pianoben |next [-]

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?

elehack |root |parent [-]

Kraid is the shader compiler for Panfrost, the Mesa driver for Arm Mali GPUs: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/panfrost.html

pianoben |root |parent [-]

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.

joshmarinacci |next |previous [-]

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

mock-possum |next |previous [-]

Next step is obviously to build Ridley

lemoncucumber |root |parent [-]

And an LLM named Motherbrain perhaps?

jdw64 |previous [-]

800,000 test??? wow So if I can use Kriad, does that mean I can build AI without having to use NVIDIA chips

Azantys |root |parent [-]

You already can with AMD/Intel gpus. Kraid is a compiler for Arm Mali which is mostly used on mobile stuff, nothing AI related.