[Pkg-fglrx-devel] CodeXL support

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Florian,

On 2015-10-06 16:24, Florian Uekermann wrote:
> I recently started using CodeXL (profiler and shader analyzer for AMD
> GPUS and some other stuff) and noticed that the .deb package supplied by
> AMd is installable without issues, but does not recognize fglrx.
> 
> Since the fglrx .debs provided by AMD don't work on debian (even if you
> patch the dkms stuff to compile for recent kernels), that leaves debian
> users with no options.
> Would it be possible to either package CodeXL (like Arch does) or at
> least to provide support for it, when it is installed from other sources?
> 
> I am happy to contribute a couple of hours a week if necessary, since I
> depend on this tool as a development aid. However, I do not know yet how
> CodeXL actually detects fglrx. Hints and ideas are appreciated,
> regardless of packaging or not.

Please file a wishlist bug against fglrx-driver so that this thread does
not get lost so easily.
And add URLs to all the things you mentioned above.
Does the license allow redistribution?


Andreas

PS: I managed to get CodeXL running last year via ssh tunneling in an
OpenSuSE environment ... but haven't touched it again after showing that
this is possible :-)