[Beignet] build problems: ASSERTION FAILED: Fail to create the gen context

[Zhigang Gong]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:04:22PM +0800, Yichao Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am on the master branch and it has always been fine (and nothing
> seems to be broken by the new commits today). I've seen ur email about
> the branching policy so I guess the commit you mentioned is also
> included in master?
Right. The master branch will always have all the bug fixing patches.

> 
> As for the AUR packaging issue from someone else I mentioned in the
> last email, it turns out that the Intel GPU does not show up in lspci
> for certain BIOS settings although lshw shows both of his NVIDIA and
> Intel card correctly. I'm not sure what his problem is and whether it
> is still there with the new runtime detecting mechanism. Do you have
> any idea about it? (See the AUR comment[1] for more info about his
> HW.)
> 
> 
> 
> P.S. He said he had problem posting on this list, any idea about that?
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/beignet-git/

His email may be blocked by the list. Anyway, the current master and
Release_v0.9.x branch both don't need to execute lspci any more.

CC to cguenther,
could you confirm that the problem has been solved on both master and Release_v0.9.x
branch? Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Igor and Yichao,
> >
> > Now you could try branch Release_v0.9.x again which already fixed this
> > issue completely. We no longer need lspci from now on.
> > And if that version is good from package maintainer view, we will
> > consider to make another fix release soon in next week. Thanks.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Igor Gnatenko
> > <i.gnatenko.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 14:09 +0800, Zhigang Gong wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 07:53:42AM +0200, Adel Gadllah wrote:
> >>> > Zhigang Gong:
> >>> > >On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 01:33:14AM +0400, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> >>> > >>Hi,
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>I've long time no tested beignet builds. Now I've updated it to 0.9.0 in
> >>> > >>Fedora rawhide[0].
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>And it failed to build.
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>Generating ../../utests/../kernels/compiler_ceil.bin
> >>> > >>Unknown opt
> >>> > >>/builddir/build/BUILD/Beignet-0.9.0-Source/build/backend/src/gbe_bin_generater: option requires an argument -- 't'
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>ASSERTION FAILED: Fail to create the gen context
> >>> > >>   at
> >>> > >>file /builddir/build/BUILD/Beignet-0.9.0-Source/backend/src/backend/gen_program.cpp, function virtual gbe::Kernel* gbe::GenProgram::compileKernel(const gbe::ir::Unit&, const string&, bool), line 167
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>And etc. I'm attaching FULL build log.
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>[0]http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/beignet.git/commit/?id=0c45e57cbecf72e1a5f243bbc0f375e3f19a2b03
> >>> > >>--
> >>> > >>-Igor Gnatenko
> >>> > >
> >>> > >>/builddir/build/BUILD/Beignet-0.9.0-Source/src/GetGenID.sh: line 3: lspci: command not found
> >>> > >>-- Platform Gen PCI id is
> >>> > >The root cause is that now beignet will build internal binary kernels according current build host's
> >>> > >Gen VGA PCI id.
> >>> > This can't work for distributions that want to ship beignet. The
> >>> > system it gets build on is not the one it runs on. Also distribution
> >>> > build systems tend to be virtual machines that do not have any real
> >>> > (or intel) vga hardware.
> >>> You are right, this is a problem for distributions. I just realized this issue when
> >>> I replied to Igor. We will discuss how to make it friendly for package maintainer soon.
> >> Why do we need find out VGA PCI id?
> >>> Thanks for pointing this out.
> >>
> >> --
> >> -Igor Gnatenko
> >>
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