[Pkg-opencl-devel] intel/compute-runtime (Neo)

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

On 10/03/18 07:21, Daniel Vacek wrote:
> And one more on the wishlist. Could Intel's NEO driver be added aside
> to beignet? At least to experimental to begin with... That would be
> nice :-)

That's probably a good idea, but as I have only just become aware of its 
existence (the beignet development list just faded out, with no 'use 
this instead' announcement that I've seen), I will need time to investigate.

https://01.org/compute-runtime

Potential issues noted so far:
- They seem to be using a patched LLVM/Clang 4:
   - the various microcontroller GCCs (-avr etc) are a sort-of-precedent 
for allowing target-specific patched compilers in Debian, but not a 
promise that this would be allowed.
   - some of the patches are marked "internal only".
- Support for Gen7 (Ivy Bridge/Haswell) hardware appears to have been 
removed:
   - we probably want to also keep beignet as long as we reasonably can 
(though given its tendency to break in new LLVM/Clang versions, that 
might only mean "as long as LLVM/Clang <=5 is still in Debian").
   - the new package(s) may need a maintainer other than me so they can 
be tested.

It's also unclear whether Neo is intended to be the official name of the 
project; I intend to ask upstream whether they prefer neo-opencl-icd or 
intel-opencl-icd.