On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 01:03:53PM -0600, Dann Frazier wrote: > [ Reorganized to use inline replies ] > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Gunn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Matthias Klose <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> LP: #1586026 asks for the removal of binary packages on arm64 which > >> cannot be built with OpenGL ES. Do we really have to cripple an > >> architecture like this? I don't see any discussion about this. How > >> does this affect things like GPU accelerators and CUDA aware packages? > > hey Matthias, > > after reading the bug, it's implied the binaries being asked for removal > > were somehow built with gl (possibly sw implementation of gl?)....please > > cmiiaw > > as to the request, never say never, but at least i've never seen an arm > > chipset in the wild with a gl enabled gpu (like the bug indicates they're > > all gles). > > so i'm not sure of the value of having those binaries present where at least > > in real application, there's no gl ? > Ubuntu supports a growing number of ARM servers that have PCIe slots, > so external GPUs can be added. CUDA is supported on those platforms > upstream: > https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-65 > And I do know there are users interested in CUDA on Ubuntu/arm64. > I'm not experienced with CUDA myself - and don't have a card to test it - but > it would be good to know if we're breaking that use case ahead of time. I agree that CUDA should be a concern on arm64. However, this bug report is about changes to the Qt GL stack on arm64. Qt is a GUI toolkit; I don't see any reason that building Qt for GLES instead of GL should impact CUDA, do you? And while ARM64 servers have PCIe slots and can take GPUs, I don't expect this to mean that we want to support a desktop stack in such a configuration. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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