Proposed improvements to the Khronos OpenCL man pages package

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Hello,

> On 2013-05-30 15:20, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> Well, I think the public svn access is rather recent. That package
>> should probably be updated too to make use of the svn access that has
>> been made available.
>
> That sounds good, I'll have a look into this.

The root of their public repository for opencl is

https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/cl/

There you can find the 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 headers under api/<version>,
documentation about the registered extensions under
extensions/<vendor> (this might be useful e.g. to patch the headers in
case they miss some define, maybe, and also to provide some
documentation, if an easy way to turn them into man pages can be
found), .xml and .html versions of the documentation under
sdk/<version>/docs/man/ (and a pdf quick-reference card in */docs/),
and finally the pdf versions of the specifications under specs/. this
last directory is the one that hosts the icd loader.

>> Additionally, I think debian could start packaing the Khronos opencl
>> ICD dispatcher (khronos-libopencl1) as an alternative to the
>> proprietary ones from amd and nvidia. I'll look into opening and RFP
>> for this too.
>
> They provide source for this now?

Yes. It's not exactly well-advertise (although there was an
announcement some time ago), and it's not in the most obvious of
places, but it's there:

https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/cl/specs/opencl-icd-1.2.11.0.tgz

I've tried building it and it seems to build fine on my machine. The
source also includes a small icd loading test tool.

I'm not sure about what kind of customizations vendors do the loader,
but I would be honestly be happier with having the reference,
open-source loader rather than a proprietary one or the
reverse-engineered one from the ocl project.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta