[Pkg-opencl-devel] The state of Intel compute/AI packages.

[M. Zhou]

SYCL is not OpenCL. SYCL is an abstraction of OpenCL.
Debian has not yet started any work on SYCL/OneAPI AFAIK.
It requires significant amount of time for somebody to
start it from scratch.

SYCL/OneAPI do not seem mature enough, because SYCL is not
yet upstreamed to LLVM. And PyTorch's SYCL/OneAPI support
is still missing.

I feel it's still not the right time to start.
At least not myself.

On Sat, 2023-09-23 at 14:25 +0200, silex wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I recently switched from AMD GPU to Intel ARC for my Blender and
> Stable 
> Diffusion work.
> 
> Intel compute related packages in Debian are maintained under 
> pkg-opencl-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org. Unfortunately that mailing 
> list is riddled with spam, and from what I can see is not very
> active. 
> Since the 4 of september intel-compute-runtime package has serious
> bug 
> that makes it uninstallable with newest compiler: 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051189 That
> package 
> also is couple solid months behind upstream.
> 
> I'm writing about it here to maybe start a discussion whether it
> would 
> be better to have AI/compute packages from all GPU vendors under the 
> same roof?
> My apologies if this question is inapropriate.
> 
> Best regards, and thanks for your work,
> Jakub Jaszewski
>