* create a 3D driver that "works with LLVM-IR and is effectively a portable software-only driver", very similar to SwiftShader.  this would be estimated (as a major milestone) around 3-4 months.
* (working closely with Jacob) identify the instructions which, if added, would accelerate 3D rendering, and arrange to use them in both the Mesa NIR *and* make sure that the LLVM-IR compiler recognises them.

Schedule A for MoU 2019-10-042

# Initial Software-only 3D MESA Driver
software only (SwiftShader style) 3D MESA Driver, portable (x86 etc) using non-accelerated LLVM

Budget: EUR 12000
URL: http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251

# 3D accelerated opcodes need to be added to the POWER ISA simulator 
adding iterated support for 3D opcodes to ISA Simulator (and unit tests)

Budget: EUR 7000
URL: http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252

# Add hardware implementations of 3D accelerated opcodes 
first iterative effort developing and adding hardware accelerated 3D opcodes to 3D MESA driver

Budget: EUR 12500
URL: http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253

# 2nd iteration of opcodes in 3D MESA driver
A 2nd iteration of opcodes in 3D MESA driver is needed.  This involves assessing and reporting on the level of success of the first round of simulations and ease of implementability in hardware, as well as the effectiveness in number of gates, power consumption and (learning from Jeff Bush's Nyuzi work) the number of pixels processed per clock.

Budget: EUR 12500
URL: http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254

# Second iteration round for opcodes, simulation and hardware for 3D MESA
Documentation to the level of an ISA Standards Proposal of all hardware opcodes

Budget: 6000
URL: http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255

note that bug #53 has budget from NLNet 2019-02-012 which should not duplicate here.  #53 is primarily for Kazan however the HW can be used here as well obvioudly

Software Dependencies:

* All software build dependencies of the MESA library (yes this itself is a large list)
* latex (and, depending on Alain's preferences for GUI editors, potentially texstudio)
* LibreSOC HDL and all LibreSoc build dependencies, which include yosys and nmigen 
* the gem5 POWER ISA simulator and its software build dependencies.

everything that we need to modify will be on http://git.libre-riscv.org.

Overview

We have the unusual goal of developing not just a new 3D MESA driver:
the hardware itself is being simultaneously developed in conjunction with
the software driver.

However before spending the time implementing full hardware (even in HDL),
which will be emulated significantly slower than actual hardware, we need
to implement - and test and evaluate - the planned instructions using an
emulator, first.  This significantly reduces both development time and
cost, allowing fast iteration and evaluation.

Once we are happy with the chosen hardware instructions at the simulation
level, then we may move to implementing them in hardware.  We will need
to write full unit tests of both the hardware and also run software unit
tests as best as practical on emulated hardware (knowing that it will be
operating thousands to tens of thousands of times slower) and, if practical,
running on an FPGA board.

After the hardware-level simulation, if the gate count and estimated
gate count is acceptable when compared to commercial GPUs, *and* the number
of pixels generated per clock is at an acceptable commercial level,
then we can consider the hardware and software part of the project to be
completed.

Until then, we iterate round the above, and, once completed, finish off
by documenting the hardware instructions as an "ISA Extension" for POWER.

http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247

*** Bug 247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***