commit: e1559c7a4a87b266b306c9b67fc431ca75619e9e Author: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Mon Mar 9 10:12:45 2020 +0000 Commit: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Mon Mar 9 10:12:45 2020 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=e1559c7a
2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout: add news item Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo.org> .../2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout.en.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout/2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout.en.txt b/2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout/2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe50d82 --- /dev/null +++ b/2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout/2020-03-09-opencl-abi_x86_32-phaseout.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Title: Removing ABI_X86_32 support from virtual/opencl +Author: Marek Szuba <[email protected]> +Posted: 2020-03-09 +Revision: 2 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: virtual/opencl + +From April 2020 onwards virtual/opencl will no longer provide support +for the 32-bit ABI on either multilib amd64 or native x86 systems. The +reason for this is that most modern OpenCL providers currently available +from Gentoo only support the 64-bit ABI anyway. Therefore, we intend +to initially mask: + - virtual/opencl in x86 profiles, + - USE=abi_x86_32 for virtual/opencl in all profiles, and + - USE=opencl in x86 profiles. +and follow up with removal of multilib support and x86 keywords from +virtual/opencl. + +Note that this change will only affect the virtual package, i.e. OpenCL +providers which do support ABI_X86_32 will continue to advertise this +capability. Users of such providers who wish to retain 32-bit OpenCL +support are advised to add virtual/opencl to package.provided; see +portage(5) for details.
