On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Joel Eriksson <joel.eriks...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Joel Eriksson >>> <joel.eriks...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> It is the AMD IL code that needs to be updated, to GCN assembly .. It >>>> would be possible to code it in OpenCL as well, but the whole point with >>>> coding it in AMD IL to begin with was to make use of certain instructions >>>> to make it more efficient. OpenCL code would most likely have a >>>> significantly lower performance (but would obviously be better than >>>> nothing). The C++ wrappers around may need to be modified slightly as well, >>>> but that change is trivial. >>>> >>> >>> They will have to. Ubuntu 13.04 is EOL and 12.04 will be in 3 weeks, >>> when the new 14.04 comes out. They told me that right know they support >>> only Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04. That's after >>> they crashed my X-server and trashed my installation with their latest >>> catalyst :-( >>> >> >> Huh? They will have to what? Ubuntu versions and life spans has >> absolutely nothing to do with this. >> > > Actually it does. Ubuntu is the largest Linux distro. They claim to > support it, so they 'll have to either follow or drop it. > Just an update on this. I filled the AMD ticket a week ago. Just received mail from AMD support telling me that they support Ubuntu 13.10 with their latest beta catalyst. It seems that Linux community matters to them ;-)
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