Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: dev-libs/beignet
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:21:43
Message-Id: 15c243f5-d18f-bc08-96e7-46fa1cac5ff1@gentoo.org
1 Deprecated upstream in Q1'2018 in favour of dev-libs/intel-neo and
2 while it officially remains the recommended solution for "legacy HW
3 platforms" not supported by NEO (i.e. Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and
4 Haswell GPUs), there has been no repository activity since August 2018.
5 Only really suitable for code development due to poor performance, some
6 OpenCL-aware software (e.g. media-gfx/darktable) explicitly blacklists
7 Beignet devices.
8 Upstream does not support LLVM versions newer than 7, third-party
9 patches exist for 8 and 9 but Beignet built against those versions fails
10 some unit tests.
11
12 Removal in 30 days. Bug #710640.
13
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15 Marecki

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