Radeon Gallium3D Now Sort Of Works For OpenCL

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon Gallium3D Now Sort Of Works For OpenCL

While AMD is behind the ball on supporting Radeon HD 7000 series hardware, they're finally beginning to catch-up with supporting OpenCL for GPGPU computing on their open-source Linux graphics driver with Gallium3D...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA2Njc

[bug77]

I don't get it. AMD releases specs in the open, even pays one guy to do the work and still nouveau is the first to implement support? This doesn't quite add up.

[chris200x9]

Now if only steam via wine would launch with the open drivers.

[ChrisXY]

Now if only steam via wine would launch with the open drivers.

Not sure what your problem is...

[bridgman]

I don't get it. AMD releases specs in the open, even pays one guy to do the work and still nouveau is the first to implement support? This doesn't quite add up.

My impression was that we're talking about different levels of functionality -- Francisco was working on runtime but not using the full compiler stack (shaders were in TGSI IIRC), while Tom was working more on compiler and is running an top-to-bottom stack.

Take that with a grain of salt, but at first glance this milestone is a logical progression from the previous one. It's always tempting to view this as a competition between independent development efforts but I don't think that's actually the case.

[Silverthorn]

I don't get it. AMD releases specs in the open, even pays one guy to do the work and still nouveau is the first to implement support? This doesn't quite add up.

My impression was that we're talking about different levels of functionality -- Francisco was working on runtime but not using the full compiler stack (shaders were in TGSI IIRC), while Tom was working more on compiler and is running an top-to-bottom stack.

Take that with a grain of salt, but at first glance this milestone is a logical progression from the previous one. It's always tempting to view this as a competition between independent development efforts but I don't think that's actually the case.

Do not forget, he is a paid developer as well.

[chris200x9]

Not sure what your problem is...

I see your running kernel 3.3 did it work on 3.2 too? I'm not really sure, I have a reddwood too, prolly same model 5650...

[ChrisXY]

I see your running kernel 3.3 did it work on 3.2 too? I'm not really sure, I have a reddwood too, prolly same model 5650...

I think it did... Kernel shouldn't have that much influence on wine + mesa...

*you're

[whizse]

I see your running kernel 3.3 did it work on 3.2 too? I'm not really sure, I have a reddwood too, prolly same model 5650...

It does, and it has been working for quite a few years now...

[smitty3268]

Now if only steam via wine would launch with the open drivers.

If you posted the error, people might be able to point out what you've misconfigured. Steam works though WINE just fine. Make sure you have 32 bit versions of everything.