PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

K. Macy kmacy at freebsd.org
Tue Aug 30 20:14:16 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffunip at tutopia.com> wrote:
> FWIW;
>
> Christopher Bergström and Pathscale delivered the EKOPath
> Compiler Suite, but no one followed up:
>
> (From the WantedPorts Wiki)
> https://github.com/pathscale/path64-suite
>
> There has been very low interest in the FreeBSD port,
> and unfortunately this is a bad signal that we give to
> companies that want to contribute :(.
>

The problem I have with that is that they only support the high-end
computing variant of the card which I doubt any of us has. Without the
documentation to extend the work to ordinary cards, e.g. my GTX460, it
isn't that useful.

Thanks


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