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Wow! I hadn’t realise that the last update was already almost a year ago… One day I’ll manage to do frequent and regular updates.
Without further due, let’s delve into the the news!

My initial and last post on the subject was almost half a year ago, day for day. But this silence didn't meant the project had stalled and I did make some progress! (Well, not as much as what I initially hoped, to be honest.) Somewhere around mid-September or mid-October I did manage to get the following kernel (from Tom Stellar's OpenCL examples) to run witout Nouveau complaining and to return the expected value:

About a month ago, I replied to a thread on the Nouveau Mailing List announcing that I would be working on different tasks in order to bring OpenCL/Cuda support to Nouveau. A few days later, I ran away… to Japan for some (quite needed) vacations. Before leaving, I had started working on a first task though: parsing SPIR-V binaries. It was able to parse the SPIR-V header instructions, constants and the different types declarations, nothing major and the code was horrible (well, it still is).