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Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Wrong, I say, WROOOOONG!!!!! |
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No reason to go into hysterics. Think of your blood pressure! ;-) |
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> OpenCl is not OpenGL. It is more of a framework than an API. A high |
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> end machine may have a number of different OpenCL hosts, the cpu, |
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> vector cores built into the cpu as in the AMD APU line and intel's |
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> lame knockoff thereof. =P |
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> There is also OpenCL support in GPUs, Xeon Phi, FPGA and potentially |
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> other devices too. |
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> The game Planet Explorers (available on Steam) demonstrates how this |
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> should be used. You are given a menu at the start of the game that |
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> lists the available OpenCL implementations. You then select whatever |
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> device you want to use for OpenCL that day... |
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> So there should not be eselect OpenCL, All gentoo needs to do is |
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> enforce standards on where the relevant libraries are stored and the |
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> application will select which one to use. |
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You should better report this to the developers of the respective |
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applications. I'm not an expert on this, but I think this is nothing |
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that the gentoo developers can do. |
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And I think it's better to have "eselect OpenCL" than nothing. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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