Intel's Beignet OpenCL Is Still Slowly Baking

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Beignet OpenCL Is Still Slowly Baking

While Intel's open-source OpenGL Linux driver improved a lot in 2013, sadly not advancing as much is the Intel OpenCL Linux driver for GPGPU support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU1MjA

[deanjo]

Got a typo in there

Intel China developers.

[pouar]

Maybe if Intel would stop duplicating everything Gallium3D already does.

[s_j_newbury]

It's not entirely separate from mesa; in that it can utilise a new EGL extension to allow interoperation, this requires building beignet against the mesa sources. In fact, I've hacked together a mesa Gentoo ebuild which builds beignet along with mesa when enabled via opencl/beignet use flags.