From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-169297-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85041388BF for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02932E086A; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.web-xs.org (mail.web-xs.org [148.251.4.204]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7B77E07C5 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:53:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBD76EC3773 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:53:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.web-xs.org Received: from mail.web-xs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.web-xs.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rmKoHIUULS+z for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:53:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from server-1.localdomain (p54A70E55.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.167.14.85]) (Authenticated sender: lukas@der-erste-sinn.de) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AE92A6EC35D3 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:53:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from hal9000.localdomain (hal.localdomain [192.168.0.2]) by server-1.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37885223 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:43:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:52:28 +0100 From: <wabenbau@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eselect OpenCL is wrong. Message-ID: <20160106195228.4afa95b6@hal9000.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <568D41B0.9000300@verizon.net> References: <568D41B0.9000300@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 76c70f7d-7196-4129-accd-3305a133fa67 X-Archives-Hash: 0cc2ca1e740145eb416dcdb909543018 Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote: > Wrong, I say, WROOOOONG!!!!! No reason to go into hysterics. Think of your blood pressure! ;-) > OpenCl is not OpenGL. It is more of a framework than an API. A high > end machine may have a number of different OpenCL hosts, the cpu, > vector cores built into the cpu as in the AMD APU line and intel's > lame knockoff thereof. =P > > There is also OpenCL support in GPUs, Xeon Phi, FPGA and potentially > other devices too. > > The game Planet Explorers (available on Steam) demonstrates how this > should be used. You are given a menu at the start of the game that > lists the available OpenCL implementations. You then select whatever > device you want to use for OpenCL that day... > > So there should not be eselect OpenCL, All gentoo needs to do is > enforce standards on where the relevant libraries are stored and the > application will select which one to use. You should better report this to the developers of the respective applications. I'm not an expert on this, but I think this is nothing that the gentoo developers can do. And I think it's better to have "eselect OpenCL" than nothing. -- Regards wabe