[Pkg-opencl-devel] Bug#857591: libclc-amdgcn: apply upstream Mesa patch

[Andreas Boll]

Control: fixed -1 0.2.0+git20170213-1

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:12:55PM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote:
> Package: libclc-amdgcn
> Version: 0.2.0+git20160907-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream patch
> 
> Running the "clinfo" utility (with AMD GPU), from the package of the
> same name, produces the following openCL compile error:
> 
>     unsupported call to function get_local_size
> 
> This is a known problem, and is being widely complained of, as it makes
> openCL unusable on AMD GPUs:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22unsupported+call+to+function+get_local_size%22
> 
> Fortunately, a patch is now available from Mesa upstream:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99856#c24
> 
> However, it is suggested that "distros will probably have to apply that
> patch individually":
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=130136
> 
> Please do so; until this is done, libclc-amdgcn is effectively unusable.

Hi,

libclc 0.2.0+git20170213-1 from experimental shouldn't be affected by
this issue because it uses LLVM 4.0. See also [1]

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99856#c14

Thanks,
Andreas
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