POCL 1.4 RC1 Brings Better SPIR/SPIR-V Support On The CPU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: POCL 1.4 RC1 Brings Better SPIR/SPIR-V Support On The CPU

POCL, the "Portable Open Computing Language" project known for implementing OpenCL support on top of the CPU, is closing in on its version 1.4 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...4-RC1-Released

[tildearrow]

Wait, so it is possible to use this instead of ROCm on AMD cards?

[Michael]

Wait, so it is possible to use this instead of ROCm on AMD cards?

I believe you still would need ROCm for providing the HSA libraries.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Until this and ROCm built into the kernel gets recognized by Blender and other traditional applications that can leverage OpenCL on the GPGPU and CPU it is just talk.