Notes on internal design

Higher-level notes of pocl software design and implementation are collected to this part.

• OpenCL host library
• Kernel compiler
  • Multiple logical address spaces
  • Work group function generation
  • Work-group autovectorization
  • Creating the work-group function launchers
  • Assisting transformations
  • Other OpenCL-specific optimizations
• Memory management in PoCL
  • On-device memory, SVM, subbuffers
  • Bufalloc
• Binary inputs format
  • Implementation-specific intermediate representation
  • Device-specific representation
• How to write a new user-space device driver for PoCL
  • Setting device properties
  • PoCL’s internal driver API