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From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] opencl runtime
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 22:25:07
Message-Id: 3188071.oiGErgHkdL@lenovo.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] opencl runtime by peter@prh.myzen.co.uk
1 On Tuesday, 4 October 2022 12:49:09 BST peter@××××××××××××.uk wrote:
2 > On Tuesday, 4 October 2022 11:15:44 BST Michael wrote:
3 > > On a number of stable systems with a selection of different Northern
4 > > Islands to Sea Islands APUs/GPUs, I have media-libs/mesa installed in as
5 > > a dependency. Given the above message and noticing
6 > > dev-libs/rocm-opencl-runtime is still in testing, am I meant to keyword it
7 > > and install it manually, or will it replace mesa automagically some day in
8 > > the future when marked as stable?
9 >
10 > You need to add it to package.keywords. I've been running like that for some
11 > years, to enable GPU processing of BOINC projects on an AMD Radeon Pro
12 > WX5100.
13
14 Thanks Peter, I've keyworded it along with half a dozen of other dependencies
15 it dragged in and it is emerging now. Will mesa still be required, or are the
16 two packages used for different purposes and can co-exist?

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Re: [gentoo-user] opencl runtime Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>