SUSE Looks To Mainline The AMD HSA Support In GCC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SUSE Looks To Mainline The AMD HSA Support In GCC

Martin Jambor at SUSE is looking to begin mainlining the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) support within the GCC compiler...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-HSA-Mainlining

[Adarion]

That is goooood news. Especially for Gentoo people.
Offloading some of the compilation process to the GPU. Now I just need some HSA compatible APU. Damn. My two Kabinis aren't fully HSA.

[brent]

This work is not about offloading some parts of compilation to the GPU, it's about adding support to GCC for HSA so that you can write code that offloads stuff to the GPU.

[andrei_me]

This work is not about offloading some parts of compilation to the GPU, it's about adding support to GCC for HSA so that you can write code that offloads stuff to the GPU.

Yeah, those patches allows binaries compiled with GCC that uses OpenMP to run the supported OpenMP pragmas on the GPU