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* Package radeontop - To monitor a Radeon GPU (which supports OpenCL)
* Package radeontop - To monitor a Radeon GPU (which supports OpenCL)
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996953 Fix OpenCL path owenrship] - In /etc/OpenCL
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996953 Fix OpenCL path owenrship] - In /etc/OpenCL
* Package piglit - This will be a testuite for the OpenCL implementations


== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==

Revision as of 15:57, 15 August 2013


Change Proposal Name OpenCL

Summary

This change will bring initial OpenCL support to Fedora. This will include enabling Mesa's OpenCL state-tracker and the introduction of several OpenCL related packages.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 21
  • Last updated: 2013-07-17
  • Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

The change will include the following sub changes:

  • Enable OpenCL state-tracker in Mesa
  • Update existing OpenCL related packages if needed
  • Package libclc - needed by Mesa's state-tracker
  • Package pocl - CPU-only OpenCL implementation
  • Package gocl - glib based OpenCL library
  • Package radeontop - To monitor a Radeon GPU (which supports OpenCL)
  • Fix OpenCL path owenrship - In /etc/OpenCL
  • Package piglit - This will be a testuite for the OpenCL implementations

Benefit to Fedora

Developres will have an easier start to develop OpenCL based software on Fedora. Furthermore this shall be seen as a step o bring OpenCL based software to Linux in general.

Scope

  • Proposal owners: Mainly packaging
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

This is a pure enhancements, so nothing should break.

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes