Re: GalliumCompute / OpenCL on Radeon HD7790

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 09:20:54AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> This page:
> 
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumCompute/
> 
> says "Evergreen through Southern Islands GPU families are currently
> supported."
> 
> It's unclear (at least to me) whether HD7790 ("Sea Islands") cards are
> supposed to be included in this; apparently the GPUs are similar to the
> rest of the 7000 series.
>
> This article:
> 
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5ODU
> 
> suggests that the answer might be "yes", but it doesn't specifically
> mention GalliumCompute or OpenCL.
> 
> Could anybody clarify whether the information on the wiki page should
> apply to a Radeon HD7790 card? Could the wiki be updated to be more
> specific about which GPUs it is relevant to?

Sea Islands GPUs are supported.  I've added this to the wiki page.
 
> 
> Also, could the build instructions comment on whether packages from the
> Linux distribution (Debian?) might do as well? Or would those not have
> been built with options like "--enable-experimental-targets=R600",
> "--with-gallium-drivers=r600", and "--enable-opencl"?
>

If you are using Gentoo, then it is possible to enable opencl support
when installing the -9999 package of mesa.  I'm not sure
if any other distros provide packages with OpenCL enabled.

-Tom
 
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> 
> 
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