Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing VIDEO_CARDS=iris to virtual/opencl

2019-12-20 Thread Marek Szuba
On 2019-12-17 21:21, Matt Turner wrote: >> What do you think, guys? > > I don't love it. > > I don't like the mess that has become VIDEO_CARDS=... either. radeon > vs radeonsi vs amdgpu. [...] I hear you and very much agree, especially regarding the Radeon mess. That said, it seems what we are

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing VIDEO_CARDS=iris to virtual/opencl

2019-12-18 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hi, As someone with a Radeon / Intel hybrid/dual graphics chip. I can only emphasise what Matt says below.  It's a PITA currently. Having said that ... I don't see how this can be made simpler, unless we have a tool of sorts that when run on *any* hardware gives you what this needs to be set to,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing VIDEO_CARDS=iris to virtual/opencl

2019-12-17 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:26 AM Marek Szuba wrote: > What do you think, guys? I don't love it. I don't like the mess that has become VIDEO_CARDS=... either. radeon vs radeonsi vs amdgpu. Different names for different bits of the stack, even for the same hardware. I would like to come up with so

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Introducing VIDEO_CARDS=iris to virtual/opencl

2019-12-16 Thread Marek Szuba
Penny for your thoughts, guys: I am thinking about splitting the video_cards_i965 condition in virtual/opencl so that NEO is pulled in by video_cards_iris instead, and I wonder if there is anything I haven't thought about. The reason why I would like to do this is that there is clear corresponden