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by KingLancelot 915 days ago
Not the way to do this.

Accelerators already have a common middle layer.

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-introducing-llvm-project-of...

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From the thread it looks like AMD and Nvidia have something similar, maybe Intel is wants feature parity
It looks like offload is mostly about generic abstractions for accelerator devices. XeGPU on the other hand seems to be a way of encoding Xe-specific hardware features/instructions, so pretty different? I don't see how these are anything but orthogonal.