[Beignet] Backend visible to other apps?

Steven Newbury steve at snewbury.org.uk
Mon Oct 14 14:56:53 PDT 2013


On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 20:48 +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> On 14.10.2013 20:22, Ian Daniher wrote:
> 
> > I'm pretty sure I need to add something to /etc/OpenCL/vendors to make
> > beignet's presence known, but this doesn't seem to be done automatically
> > and documentation is spotty.
> 
> You need two things: the library needs to be built with ICD support
> enabled (for that, you need ICD development headers), and a file in
> /etc/OpenCL/vendors needs to point at the library (simply use the full
> path as the file contents).
> 
> If you use Debian, the packages handle this.
> 
If you use Gentoo I have a live ebuild which works well and integrates
with the Gentoo OpenCL infrastructure. (for gx86 multilib too;
amd64/x86)  I need to update my public overlay though.  I'll do that and
provide a link if requested.




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