[Pkg-opencl-devel] Updating beignet backport?

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-05-27 19:47, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> jessie-backports currently has beignet 1.0.3, which was recently found
> to cause graphical corruption on some systems
> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2016/05/msg00114.html).
> 
> beignet 1.1.2 (with the patch there to use llvm 3.5) avoids this
> problem, and also adds support for Skylake hardware.

please prepare the backport in git :-)

> Unfortunately, it also assert-fails (i.e. kills the whole application
> instead of just returning an error) on some invalid OpenCL code; I
> haven't yet had time to investigate this further.

and prominently document these caveats.


Andreas