CUDA and PyCUDA on ppc64el

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2018-12-18 08:58, Tomasz Rybak wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> Playing a bit with PyCUDA packaging while trying to polish it
> before upload I tried to build ppc64el package.
> nvidia-cuda-toolkit is available for this architecture, so PyCUDA
> should work with it.

> It looks like there is no libcuda.so for ppc64el. This file is
> in libcuda1, which is only available for armhf, amd64, and i386.

nvidia-cuda-toolkit-dev should come with
/usr/lib/<triplet>/stubs/libcuda.so
that you can use for linking tests

> Has anybody tried (or succeeded) runing CUDA on ppc64el?
> When I look at transition page, I can see packages only for amd64.

Since they have a build-depends on nvidia-cuda-toolkit in non-free, they
would need manual builds and binary anyway.

> I'll also ask this question on PyCUDA mailing list, but wanted
> to coordinate here, as this touched Debian packaging.

nvidia no longer provides .run files for the ppc64el driver ... so it's
hard to get the driver packaged and in sync with amd64.

Andreas