[Mesa-dev] GalliumCompute / OpenCL on Radeon HD7790

[Michel Dänzer]

On Son, 2014-01-19 at 09:20 -0800, ian_bruce at fastmail.net wrote:
> This page:
> 
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumCompute/
> 
> says "Evergreen through Southern Islands GPU families are currently
> supported."
> 
> It's unclear (at least to me) whether HD7790 ("Sea Islands") cards are
> supposed to be included in this; apparently the GPUs are similar to the
> rest of the 7000 series.
> 
> This article:
> 
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5ODU
> 
> suggests that the answer might be "yes", but it doesn't specifically
> mention GalliumCompute or OpenCL.
> 
> Could anybody clarify whether the information on the wiki page should
> apply to a Radeon HD7790 card?

AFAIK it should.


> Also, could the build instructions comment on whether packages from the
> Linux distribution (Debian?) might do as well? Or would those not have
> been built with options like "--enable-experimental-targets=R600",
> "--with-gallium-drivers=r600", and "--enable-opencl"?

The Debian Mesa packages aren't built with --enable-opencl yet, there
are Debian bug reports requesting that.


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