[Pkg-opencl-devel] legacy IGC/intel-compute-runtime

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 12/17/24 08:21, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> With the latest releases of IGC & intel-compute-runtime, Intel has 
> dropped support for pre-GEN12 GPU's. We could keep the old version 
> packaged, but the problem is that the legacy versions require LLVM14, 
> and we likely won't have that anymore in Trixie. So we're forced to drop 
> legacy support from Debian unless IGC1 will receive support for newer LLVM.

So the recently forked intel-graphics-compiler2 is a trixie candidate?
And building latest intel-compute-runtime against that would make it a 
trixie candidate as well? Then I'd say: Let's do it!

intel-graphics-compiler/llvm-14 can stay in sid for now and if there is 
popular demand, we can still fork the older intel-compute-runtime as 
intel-compute-runtime-legacy (or better use a name with some kind of 
version in it since that may not be the only "legacy" one in the long 
run) later on. As long as llvm-14 stays in sid I have no problems 
keeping some legacy software supporting legacy hardware in sid, too 
(like the EoL NVIDIA drivers; on the other hand we don't have legacy 
cuda toolkit versions available because we don't have the legacy GCCs 
any more).


Andreas