[Pkg-opencl-devel] Moving to LLVM 3.9 (was: pocl)

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-12-20 16:04, Andreas Boll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are currently in the same situation again. Mesa has moved to LLVM 3.9
> and thus beignet will automatically switch with the next upload/binNMU
> to LLVM 3.9 too [1].

Requested a binNMU for beignet.

> Unfortunately pocl 0.13 isn't compatible with LLVM
> 3.9. There's a git commit with fixes for 3.9 but I don't know if it's
> enough [2]. Fedora Rawhide has moved to a git snapshot of pocl 0.14 to
> get compatibility with LLVM 3.9 [3].

I'll try the patch, that's all I can probably manage before the holidays.

On 2016-12-20 16:44, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> The positive thing here is that we know a git snapshot should work
> since Fedora successfully tried it.
>
> Perhaps, we could also ask upstream how comfortable they are in making
> a release soon? Or at least point us to a specific commit they feel
> happy about packaging?

If someone could talk to upstream, that would be great.


Andreas