Intel's Beignet OpenCL Driver Updated To Work With LLVM 6/7

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Beignet OpenCL Driver Updated To Work With LLVM 6/7

Intel stopped developing their Beignet open-source Linux OpenCL driver in February to concentrate all efforts now around their new Intel OpenCL NEO platform. But commits landed today with a few improvements for those still using Beignet...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Beignet-LLVM-6-7

[davidbepo]

As a side benefit from Intel now developing a Gallium3D driver there might be another option in the future of using the "Clover" OpenCL state tracker as well.

please DONT, clover is dead, there are better options everywhere

[orome]

please DONT, clover is dead, there are better options everywhere

I there was a patch every time someone whines about clover. It'd be feature complete OCL 2.2 by now.