Libre-RISC-V 3D CPU/GPU Seeks Grants For Ambitious Expansion

'The NLNet Foundation is a non-profit supporting privacy, security,
and the "open internet". Now the open source Libre RISC-V hybrid
CPU/GPU is applying for eight additional grants from the NLNet
Foundation, according to this update from the project's Luke Kenneth
Casson Leighton (Slashdot reader #517,947):

Details on each Grant Application are on the newly-opened RISC-V
Community Forum.

The general idea is to kick RISC-V into a commercially-viable
mass-volume high gear by putting forward funding proposals for
NEON/SSE-style Video Acceleration to be upstreamed for use by ffmpeg,
vlc, mplayer and gstreamer; hardware-assisted Mesa 3D (a port of the
RADV Vulkan Driver to RISC-V), and a hardware-accelerated OpenCL port
to RISC-V. This all in a "Hybrid" fashion (a la NEON/SSE) as opposed
to the "usual" way that 3D and Video is done, which hugely complicate
both software drivers and applications debugging.

In addition, the Libre RISC-V SoC itself is applying for grants to do
a gcc port supporting its Vectorisation Engine including
auto-vectorisation, and, crucially, to do an entirely Libre-licensed
ASIC Layout using LIP6.fr coriolis2, working in tandem with
Chips4Makers to create a 180nm commercially-viable single-core
dual-issue test ASIC.

The process takes approximately 2-3 months for approval. Once
accepted, anyone may be the direct (tax-deductible) recipient of NLNet
donations, for sub-tasks completed. Worth noting: Puri.sm is
sponsoring the project, and, given NLNet's Charitable Status,
donations from Corporations (or individuals) are 100% tax-deductible.'

-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/09/29/1845252

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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