[Bf-committers] Bundling CUDA Kernels on all plattforms

[Thomas Dinges]

Well this would not affect your 8600GT, as I said, we would bundle sm_13 
kernel and above. The 8600GT needs a 1.1 kernel, which we don't support 
officially anymore.

Am 11.12.2011 19:38, schrieb Davis Sorenson:
> I have to agree with this, as compiling the kernel takes 15 or so minutes
> and nearly crashes my computer. And after that it didn't even work (It said
> it was out of memory, probably because my card is so old. It's a geforce
> 8600GT).
>
> Davis
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Thomas Dinges<blender at dingto.org>  wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> regarding the upcoming  2.61 release and Cycles/CUDA, some notes:
>>
>> In my oppinion we should bundle the three CUDA render kernels (sm_13,
>> sm_20, sm_21) for Cycles on all platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX).
>>
>> Pro's:
>> - People who want to use GPU/CUDA Rendering don't need any additional
>> software, otherwise they would have to install the nVidia CUDA Toolkit.
>> - Compiling kernels takes a lot of memory and time, this would be
>> eliminated by bundling as well.
>>
>> Con's:
>> - Release builders need to install the CUDA Toolkit
>>
>> Apart from that I don't see any other disadvantage.
>> Sure the kernels are useless for AMD users, but the additional 230kb
>> (compressed) won't harm inside the archive I guess.
>>
>> Brecht, any oppinion on that? :)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Thomas
>>
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