[Pkg-fglrx-devel] EOL of fglrx-driver

[Gert Wollny]

Hello, 

Am Mittwoch, den 04.05.2016, 20:34 +0000 schrieb PICCA Frederic-
Emmanuel:
> I am using fglrx-driver for OpenCL on my W5100 and W7100 amd GPUs.
> Do you know if there will be a plan in order to support OpenCL on amd
> for strech ?

That was actually also my thirst thought. 

However, regarding fglrx one has to acknowledge that it is EOL, and at
one point either the X-server or the kernel interface will become
incompatible. 

Anyway, OpenCL will be provided by the non-free amdgpu userspace for
newer cards (don't know whether your two cards fall under that
category), and eventually by mesa. 

There is also already pocl [1] as a free implementation that uses llvm
as backend to generate code for various hardware platforms. (The
package is a bit outdated though [2]). 

Best, 
Gert 

[1] http://portablecl.org/
[2] https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&searchon=names&keyword
s=pocl