[arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem

Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 12:58:15 EDT 2011


On 7 July 2011 18:34, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 05:46 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>
> OKKKKKKK
> after talking with Lukas i now have an idea about what you guys talking
> about.
>
> Right now, what can i do is to take care about nvidia's opencl
> implementation and loader.
>
> What I understand from Nicolas is that we can use any loader, either form
> nvidia, ati, intel. It will work with any implementation.
>
> My propose is to split opencl loader and implementation out from
> nvidia-utils like this:
>
> libcl - containing /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so*. This can be easy replaced with an
> opensource loader once is available in mesa or other that is better.
> libcl-nvidia - depending on libcl containing /etc/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia.icd
> and libcuda.so and maybe nvidia module(need confirmation)
>
> for you guys:
> libcl-intel - depending on libcl
> libcl-amd - idem
>
> How does it sound for you?
>
>
> --
> Ionuț
>

I support this proposal.

First I was not convinced that splitting nvidia-utils to three
packages is necessary and that two packages would be enough. However
OpenCL implementation is independent on OpenGL and it's possible to
use multiple devices at once it actually makes sense.

Lukas


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