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This will be shown as relevant to everyone who has installed |
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virtual/opencl, i.e. also to people on amd64 who have NOT enabled |
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abi_x86_32 for this package - but there is no way to filter news items |
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by use flags, is there? Anyway, comments are welcome! |
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Title: Removing ABI_X86_32 support from virtual/opencl |
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Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o> |
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Posted: 2020-03-09 |
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Revision: 2 |
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News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: virtual/opencl |
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From April 2020 onwards virtual/opencl will no longer provide support |
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for the 32-bit ABI on either multilib amd64 or native x86 systems. The |
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reason for this is that most modern OpenCL providers currently available |
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from Gentoo only support the 64-bit ABI anyway. Therefore, we intend |
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to initially mask: |
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- virtual/opencl in x86 profiles, |
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- USE=abi_x86_32 for virtual/opencl in all profiles, and |
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- USE=opencl in x86 profiles. |
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and follow up with removal of multilib support and x86 keywords from |
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virtual/opencl. |
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Note that this change will only affect the virtual package, i.e. OpenCL |
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providers which do support ABI_X86_32 will continue to advertise this |
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capability. Users of such providers who wish to retain 32-bit OpenCL |
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support are advised to add virtual/opencl to package.provided; see |
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portage(5) for details. |
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