2021 01 31 sync

Participants: Alexey Bader (Intel), Zahira Ammarguellat (Intel), Ronan Keryell (Xilinx), Victor Lomuller (Codeplay)

Meeting notes

• Opens

  • [RFC] Improve argument passing / Support some non device copiable types
    • Victor is going to upload a prototype for review. There are no strong objections to the proposal described in the issue.

• All patches discussed at the previous sync were merged (including https://reviews.llvm.org/D114483, which adds support for sycl_special_class attribute).

• SYCL device compiler patch list:

  • https://reviews.llvm.org/D71016 - [SYCL] Implement OpenCL kernel function generation
  • https://reviews.llvm.org/D77220 - [SYCL] Enable Open CL types required for implementing the SYCL headers.
  • https://reviews.llvm.org/D108034 - [SPIR-V] Add SPIR-V builtin functions and types

• Other patches in review

  • https://reviews.llvm.org/D99190 - [SYCL] Add design document for SYCL mode
  • https://reviews.llvm.org/D63710 - [SYCL] Re-use OpenCL sampler in SYCL device mode