Hello, Fis Trivial <ybbs.da...@hotmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> Free software that you might find of interest is POCL, an OpenCL >> implementation (not yet packaged in Guix): >> >> https://github.com/pocl/pocl >> > > I mentioned it in the original mail. But packaging these thing requires > knowledge for kernel space stuffs, like kernel module for GPU, which I > don't have. So, any help is appreciated. Oh sorry, I had overlooked that. You wrote: > However, I wanted to manage all of these with guix so that we can have a > unified dependency tree. Currently there are a few options for OpenCL > runtime. Namely, beignet, neo from Intel, ROCm stack from AMD, the POCL > project and the implementation in mesa. > > I tried to package beignet (an old OpenCL runtime from Intel) but it > wasn't successful due to failed tests (it failed from recognizing > device). > https://github.com/trivialfis/guixpkgs/blob/master/opencl.scm Regarding failed tests, I think that tests that expect GPU devices to be able are likely to fail: it could be that the relevant /dev nodes are inaccessible to the build users, or, more importantly, it could be that we’re building on a GPU-less machine such as our build farm. So these tests would have to be skipped. Anyway, I would very much welcome packages in this area! Ludo’.
