[Bf-cycles] possible new open-cl capable driver?

Bassam Kurdali bassam at urchn.org
Wed Feb 8 03:53:11 CET 2012


Looks like a developer of the nouveau driver, Francisco Jerez, (open
source nvidia driver for linux) has started/succeeeded to get open-cl
working in an experimental branch.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1Mzk

Knowing that there are currently problems with open-cl compilers/drivers
for other platforms, maybe he will be interested in
supporting/helping/testing blender/cycles rendering on nouveau/nvidia
(though likely it won't be ready for users for quite some time)

Also, it's nice to know that there is/will be an open source
possibility.

Cheers
Bassam

PS I realize it will be too early to actually work, but it might be nice
to contact him so he knows that blender is actively using open-cl.



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