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Penny for your thoughts, guys: I am thinking about splitting the |
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video_cards_i965 condition in virtual/opencl so that NEO is pulled in by |
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video_cards_iris instead, and I wonder if there is anything I haven't |
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thought about. |
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The reason why I would like to do this is that there is clear |
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correspondence between compatibility matrices of the Iris OpenGL driver |
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and the NEO OpenCL driver - both only work on Broadwell and newer. There |
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are differences of course, most notably that the old OpenCL driver |
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(Beignet) is already considered deprecated for systems supported by NEO |
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whereas the old OpenGL driver in Mesa (i965) is still the official one |
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even for newer systems. |
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Nb. to the best of my knowledge it is safe to set VIDEO_CARDS=iris even |
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globally because if both i965 and iris are available, Mesa for now still |
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prefers the former unless the environment variable |
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MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE has been set to 'iris'. |
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There would of course have to be a news item advising the users of |
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virtual/opencl + dev-libs/intel-neo to adjust their USE flags. |
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What do you think, guys? |
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