* Re: [gentoo-user] eselect OpenCL is wrong.
@ 2016-01-06 18:52 99% ` wabenbau
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From: wabenbau @ 2016-01-06 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
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