10 Dec
2012
10 Dec
'12
9:29 p.m.
On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 05:40 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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)
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
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? 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.