[Python-apps-team] Bug#731640: pyrit: please provide OpenCL addon

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:27:56 Christian Kastner wrote:
> Please file an RFP similar to #582315. These extensions have to be
> packaged separately.

I see... Please feel free to retitle/reassign this bug as RFP. (I have no time 
to find extension metadata yet).

> The CUDA extension requires non-free technology
> which puts in in contrib, and unless there is an open implementation of
> OpenCL (like Mesa OpenGL), the same would go for the OpenCL extension.

Personally I'm not interested in CUDA extension. OpenCL support is coming in 
Mesa (see #717500) and we already have free OpenCL support in "beignet".


> > At the moment "pyrit" recognise only CPU cores. It is quite confusing
> > that package description mention OpenCL functionality which is, in
> > fact, not available.
> 
> I committed a fix to the package description clarifying the issue.

Thank you.

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Regards,
 Dmitry Smirnov.