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

[Timo Aaltonen]

Timo Aaltonen kirjoitti 17.1.2025 klo 11.29:
>> 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).
> There's just no way of providing a clear upgrade path to legacy, it'd 
> have to be installed once the user realizes i-c-r doesn't support their 
> hw anymore. Or, we make the new version something that has to be 
Okay, the upgrade path for these is to have the current version add a 
Recommends on -legacy packages, they don't conflict. The runtime loader 
detects which one to use.

I have uploaded the latest one to experimental, this drops support for 
GEN8..GEN11 and needs the legacy one to get in sid before this can be 
put there (to avoid regressions). I'll push the master-legacy branch to 
git, have a look and let me know if you spot anything. I dropped the dev 
packages as they're kinda pointless.


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