[Mesa-dev] Clover Platform Naming

[Tom Stellard]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:50:23AM -0500, Aaron Watry wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I was starting to look into getting cppamp-driver-ng working with
> mesa/clover, and I quickly ran into a question...
> 
> cppamp-driver-ng explicitly lists which platforms are supported in its
> OpenCL back-end's source code. I went to add in the Mesa/Clover
> entries, and discovered that we're actually reporting ourselves as:
> CL_PLATFORM_VENDOR="Mesa"
> CL_PLATFORM_NAME="Default"
> 

What do other implementations return for CL_PLATFORM_NAME ?

-Tom

> The way that cppamp-driver-ng is written, they don't really care about
> the vendor so much as the platform name, and "Default" is about as
> generic as you can get.
> 
> At this point in the game, are we stuck with this platform name, or
> would we be able to change this to "Clover" (or something more
> appropriate)?
> 
> Just wanted to ask around and see what people thought.
> 
> --Aaron