> -----Original Message----- > From: ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org [mailto:ffmpeg-devel- > boun...@ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Niedermayer > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 4:58 PM > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: autodetect opencl > > On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:59:10AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > Gupta, Maneesh <Maneesh.Gupta <at> amd.com> writes: > > > > > > > Similar to the way SDL is being autodetected, the attached patch > > > > > proposes to autodetect OpenCL. > > > > > > > > This cannot be done since the API is defined as being not stable. > > > > > > Sorry. I am not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean OpenCL API > > > is not stable? > > > > No, FFmpeg's OpenCL API is not stable. > > btw, to not just list problems but rather suggest potential solutions: > to make the FFmpeg OpenCL API stable, i think help in maintaining the > OpenCL code in FFmpeg is needed. The current maintainer seems not to > have enough time or interrest about ABI/API compatibility. > What is needed is to review and potentially change the OpenCL related > API/ABI used between libavutil and the other libs so that everyday > extensions/changes would not break that interface between the libs then all > the "non stable / experimental" notes can be removed and it could be saftely > be used by users and distributions
[Gupta, Maneesh] Thanks. It definitely helps to know what is the direction required to make the feature stable. Let me see how I can contribute in doing that. > > > [...] > -- > Michael GnuPG fingerprint: > 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB > > Awnsering whenever a program halts or runs forever is On a turing machine, > in general impossible (turings halting problem). > On any real computer, always possible as a real computer has a finite number > of states N, and will either halt in less than N cycles or never halt. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel