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
- khronos icd
- 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)