Mesa 20.0's LLVMpipe Now Supports Running OpenCL On The CPU

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I personally can't think of any programs that depend on OpenCL

Davinci since 15 has had a hard dependency on opencl. You are correct though that lots just use it as a nice to have like Darktable. But the performance is night and day if you have it or not. It is funny we sat twiddling our thumbs and twiddling our thumbs waiting for opencl to finally start making an appearance in desk top apps and now suddenly every thing from spreadsheets on up have support. This could be a real winner for the open source world.

I am not sure if this approach brings any thing new to the existing opencl on the CPU approach. I know some apps just disable the use of opencl if it is only available via the CPU as it generally doesn't add any speed. I will be curious to see how this goes. It would be great to be able to run DR on my GPU less laptop for revision meetings with clients but I am not holding my breath.