[Bf-cycles] gpuocelot

[Brecht Van Lommel]

pocl only supports running OpenCL on the CPU as far as I can tell.
There is no way to have a library automatically support all OpenCL
devices, there is vendor specific code needed for each device.

Brecht.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Nazim Mer <nazim.mer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> sorry for the GPUOcelot thing i forgot that this was mentioned already....
>
> as for the Portable opencl driver-wouldn't it be a good idea to incorporate
> this into blender so that opencl becomes supported regardless of the
> vendor..thus introducing a new wave of cycles users,
>
> correct me if im wrong- you'd only have to incorporate this(the same way
> blender does with ffmpeg and python) once/every time a new driver comes then
> all opencl capable devices would be usable within cycles..
>
> you already have the  process where your incorporating Nvidia stuff i.e.
> someone had to test the support for the kepler GPUs(forgot the names of what
> was tested)
>
> why cant the same be done for this portable opencl driver...
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Nazim Mer
>
> On 13 December 2012 14:09, Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be>
> wrote:
>>
>> As I have explained before, I believe that it is a hardware limitation
>> on AMD graphics cards that is giving us trouble. Using different
>> compilers will not help.
>> http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-cycles/2012-October/000913.html
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Nazim Mer <nazim.mer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > could GPUocelot be incorporated into blender so that CUDA works on AMD
>> > gpus
>> > http://code.google.com/p/gpuocelot/
>> >
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