[Beignet] Introductory questions

[Daniel M Gessel]

Thank you so much for your answers.

To clarify (C): I want to add a high end third party card for rendering, possibly 2 (NV 980 class) depending on how my Vulkan coding goes. I would like to still be able to utilize the Intel GPU for OpenCL - my mental model is to think of it as a math coprocessor. I am not sure if the integrated GPU becomes completely disabled, either at a hardware or software level, in the presence of a discrete GPU.

I worked with AMD/Apple on the specification/early implementations of OpenCL. It'll take a bit to get back up to speed but, in time, I hope to be able to be able to contribute some functionality to the project!

Dan



On Feb 22, 2016, at 2:59 AM, "Song, Ruiling" <ruiling.song at intel.com> wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Beignet [mailto:beignet-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of
>> Daniel M Gessel
>> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 8:13 AM
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>> Subject: [Beignet] Introductory questions
>> 
>> Is this a good list to ask introductory questions?
> Yes, welcome.
>> 
>> 
>> If so, here they are:
>> 
>> (A) Is Beignet used for Intel’s Linux OCL implementation?
> Yes.
>> (B) Does Beignet target CPU as well as GPU, or GPU only?
> Beignet is GPU only, and only supports Intel's graphics card.
>> (C) On Linux, does Beignet allow use of OCL on integrated when running with
>> a third party graphics card?
> I am not quite sure about your question. Do you mean whether Beignet supports third party graphics card? I would say no.
> 
>> (D) Are there plans to support OpenCL 2.1 - specifically, integration of SPIR-V
>> input?
> We are working on OpenCL 2.0. I am not quite sure on OpenCL 2.1 now.
> SPIR-V is a very useful feature, but it is quite different from SPIR which we currently support.
> We will look at how to support it in Beignet. It may take some time.
> 
> Thanks!
> Ruiling
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
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