Hi, > I have just realized that the Vendor ID was associated with the SDK > provider, not the Hardware Vendor. That is, Apple's implementation of > NVidia is slightly different from the original one : > > Apple : > Vendor name : NVIDIA > Vendor ID : 16918016 > > NVidia : > Vendor name : NVIDIA Corporation > Vendor ID : 4318 > > The biggest consequence is that the generator will fallback on crappy > default profiles, even when the right ones are available... > > Shouldn't we have an upper layer returning some viennacl::vendor_id ?
I suggest to keep vendor_id as is, i.e. preserve the meaning as defined in OpenCL in order not to cause confusion. Instead, what about adding a 'provider' variable/function, which represents this 'upper layer' and would map Apple's implementation to NVIDIA? Best regards, Karli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ViennaCL-devel mailing list ViennaCL-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viennacl-devel
