Changes/OpenCL

Change Proposal Name OpenCL

Summary

This change will bring initial OpenCL support to Fedora. This will include enabling Mesa's OpenCL state-tracker and the introduction of several OpenCL related packages.

Owner

• Name: Fabian Deutsch
• Email: fabiand@fedoraproject.org
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 21
• Last updated: 2013-09-23
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

The change will include the following sub changes:

• Update existing OpenCL related packages if needed
  • gegl
  • opencl-utils
  • ocl-icd
• Enable OpenCL state-tracker in Mesa
• Package libclc - needed by Mesa's state-tracker DONE
• Package pocl - CPU-only OpenCL implementation DONE
• Fix OpenCL path owenrship - Who owns /etc/OpenCL DONE
  • Review Request: opencl-filesystem - OpenCL filesystem layout - A package owning shared paths DONE
• Review Request: gocl - GLib/GObject based library for OpenCL - glib based OpenCL library DONE
• Review Request: clinfo - Enumerate OpenCL platforms and devices - A tool to query informations about the available OpenCL platforms NEW

• khronos icd - probably not
• Package ViennaCL - A math library whcih can utilize CPU (OpenMP) and GPU (OpenCL/CUDA) WIP
• Package pyopencl - A python library for accessing OpenCL BLOCKED BY rhbz #1002898
• Package radeontop - To monitor a Radeon GPU (which supports OpenCL)
• Package piglit - This will be a testuite for the OpenCL implementations

• Add a new group to comps or a opencl-dev package?
• Add virtual provides to the opencl implementations - So a app requireing opencl just needs to require the virtual package (so any provider)
• Version opencl-headers

Benefit to Fedora

Developres will have an easier start to develop OpenCL based software on Fedora. Furthermore this shall be seen as a step o bring OpenCL based software to Linux in general.

Scope

• Proposal owners: Mainly packaging

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

This is a pure enhancements, so nothing should break.

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)