core.git: sc/qa

[Michael Stahl]

On 14.10.2014 16:04, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> 
>     i wonder if there's a buggy OpenCL driver on that Mac that needs to be
>     blacklisted somewhere?
> 
> 
> Somebody else was wondering the same earlier this week. But there isn't
> such a large variety of OpenCL drivers (or whatever the correct term is)
> on OS X. Either or code is sliughtly buggy, or there is a bug in Apple's
> OpenCL implementation that manifests itself when the code happens to
> execute on a specific OpenCL device (i.e. the CPU or a specific GPU).
> But the OpenCL driver version number as seen by our code is the same in
> all cases on a certain OS X version, I think. Not sure if we can
> blacklist only based on OpenCL driver version, or also specific
> driver+device combinations.

in any case, somebody needs to investigate *why* the test is failing for
some, as it may fail for end users too in some scenario then; just
disabling it on Mac is not the best strategy :)