Hi everyone, regarding the upcoming 2.61 release and Cycles/CUDA, some notes:
In my oppinion we should bundle the three CUDA render kernels (sm_13, sm_20, sm_21) for Cycles on all platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX). Pro's: - People who want to use GPU/CUDA Rendering don't need any additional software, otherwise they would have to install the nVidia CUDA Toolkit. - Compiling kernels takes a lot of memory and time, this would be eliminated by bundling as well. Con's: - Release builders need to install the CUDA Toolkit Apart from that I don't see any other disadvantage. Sure the kernels are useless for AMD users, but the additional 230kb (compressed) won't harm inside the archive I guess. Brecht, any oppinion on that? :) Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Dinges Blender Developer, Artist and Musician www.dingto.org _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
