Revision as of 12:51, 29 August 2013

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: 2013-07-17
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
Enable OpenCL state-tracker in Mesa
Package libclc - needed by Mesa's state-tracker DONE
Package pocl - CPU-only OpenCL implementation ASSIGNED
Fix OpenCL path owenrship - Who owns /etc/OpenCL
- Review Request: opencl-filesystem - OpenCL filesystem layout - A package owning shared paths NEW
Review Request: gocl - GLib/GObject based library for OpenCL - glib based OpenCL library NEW
Package ViennaCL

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?

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)