[LAD] opencl [was Re: [LAU] ANN: CMKeyboard]

[David Robillard]

On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 05:40 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Tue, December 11, 2012 3:33 am, David Robillard wrote:
[...]
> > Unfortunately they're not programmable on Linux yet, only on Windows.
> 
> I have been assured that the brand new NUC platform from Intel is fully
> Linux compatible with opengl/cl support too. What specific issues are you
> seeing?

Last I checked, which was quite recently, they were literally not
programmable on Linux whatsoever.  The "issue" is it's completely
unsupported on Linux and does not work at all.

(OpenCL on the normal CPU cores works, mind you, but is embarrassingly
slow compared normal threaded code, so that's useless)

> > A  complete joke if they're targeting scientific GPGPU, and useless for LAD
> > too.  Intel seriously needs to get on this and fix their drivers...
> >
> 
> Compared to AMD, Intel are actually making a lot of headway with their
> Linux drivers. At least they actually release the specs these days and
> have a full department for Linux development. AMD are having real trouble
> getting their heads around the concept of open source *and* multimedia. My
> dealings with Intel so far suggest they are light years ahead in terms of
> understanding the potential. Compared to AMD it's almost night and day.

Unfortunately Intel is light years ahead of AMD in most things these
days.  Though, if AMD has CPUs with on-die programmable GPUs in Linux, I
for one would be quite a bit more interested...

-dr

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