Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Intel Makes First Release Of Linux OpenCL Project

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Intel Makes First Release Of Linux OpenCL Project

    Phoronix: Intel Makes First Release Of Linux OpenCL Project

    While Intel has previously shipped its OpenCL SDK for Linux and Windows, this SDK is closed-source and on Linux was limited to compute support only on the processor rather than any graphics support with Ivy Bridge and newer hardware. Fortunately, Intel has finally managed to put out a first release of Beignet, an open-source Linux project that supports OpenCL...

    Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite

  • #2
    redhat

    red hat dev team is a cancer on linux, they want all people do what they want. everething is bad for them even the good things

    Comment


    • #3
      Originally posted by rikkinho View Post
      red hat dev team is a cancer on linux, they want all people do what they want. everething is bad for them even the good things
      Sorry, but no. Intel is writing an LLVM-based Ivy Bridge compute system for OpenCL. We already have one in Mesa that they could extend.... it even uses LLVM as a back-end, and we've implemented part of the OpenCL run-time library using OpenCL C and some LLVM Assembly.. The libclc/clover projects already support multiple architectures and architecture-specific overrides when necessary.

      Why wouldn't Intel re-use the existing code that we already have and improve/extend that? I agree with Dave completely.

      Comment


      • #4
        NIH syndrome? Different liscenses? Control. Going out of the way to avoid helping competing cards any more than they have to?

        Comment


        • #5
          Originally posted by rikkinho View Post
          red hat dev team is a cancer on linux, they want all people do what they want. everething is bad for them even the good things
          Huh? You must be very pleased to see different vendors' libOpenCL fighting with each other at /usr/lib(64).

          Comment


          • #6
            Originally posted by rikkinho View Post
            red hat dev team is a cancer on linux, they want all people do what they want. everething is bad for them even the good things
            did your mom turn back on your Internet for an hour?

            Comment


            • #7
              Are you at least cooping in regard to piglit tests? (or whatever you use for unit testing) (you - mesa/intel folks alike)

              Comment


              • #8
                From the mainling list

                Zou, Nanhai (Intel OpenCL developer):
                "We can merge or hook the backend into gallium when there are other mature gallium based OpenCL implementations. "

                WTF intel?!? You said the same for Gallium3D. Now there are r600g and radeonsi, and you still stay at "classics"!

                Comment


                • #9
                  Merge already ?

                  Maybe it would be good time, to merge Beignet into Gallium3D/Clover *right now*, before its too late ?

                  Beignet is open source (and I suppose their respective license won't prevent merging).
                  Beignet is still in its infancy (so that won't require the massive work that a merge of the 3D driver from classics into gallium3d requires today).

                  Clover is also under development so it is still easier to adapt if some changes are needed to make it better multi-architecture ?

                  Better do it now, than when it's to late...

                  ...hmmm, too bad that GSoC's projects are set.

                  Can Xorg's equivalent (EVoC) finance such a thing ?

                  Comment


                  • #10
                    Originally posted by DrYak View Post
                    Maybe it would be good time, to merge Beignet into Gallium3D/Clover *right now*, before its too late ?

                    Beignet is open source (and I suppose their respective license won't prevent merging).
                    Beignet is still in its infancy (so that won't require the massive work that a merge of the 3D driver from classics into gallium3d requires today).

                    Clover is also under development so it is still easier to adapt if some changes are needed to make it better multi-architecture ?

                    Better do it now, than when it's to late...

                    ...hmmm, too bad that GSoC's projects are set.

                    Can Xorg's equivalent (EVoC) finance such a thing ?
                    Yes. EVoC can finance such things as long as some core dev is willing to mentor such work. Though EVoC is not about financing work on Gallium3D/Mesa/LLVM, but about giving incentive to students for engaging into FLOSS.

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    X