On 2017-06-23 08:57, Guillermo Rozas wrote: >>> Honest question: what is the sense of doing this? If one is using the >>> open source drive on "moral grounds", taking the OpenCL blob from it >>> and using it when convenient doesn't make it any less closed. I >>> confess that I don't know the status of the proprietary drivers for >>> AMD, are they fundamentally worse than the open ones? >> There are no functional/usable/not-broken free/open source opencl drivers. >> At least if you try to use darktable, and not just run some toy benchmarks. > > I get that. What I don't understand is what is the sense of using the > open source driver AND the OpenCL part of the closed one, instead of > directly using the closed source driver. Is more of a philosophical > question :)
The sense is practical: AMDGPU-PRO (closed source driver) as a complete package is only available for Linux 4.4 and some distributions. amdgpu (opensource, no OpenCL) is part of Linux kernel, starting with >4.4(?). -- Šarūnas Burdulis math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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