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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:
- Enable OpenCL state-tracker in Mesa
- Update existing OpenCL related packages if needed
- Package libclc - needed by Mesa's state-tracker
- Package pocl - CPU-only OpenCL implementation
- Package gocl - glib based OpenCL library
- Package radeontop - To monitor a Radeon GPU (which supports OpenCL)
- Fix OpenCL path owenrship - In /etc/OpenCL
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)