Dear Rebecca, thanks a lot for your most helpful response! Comments inlined below.
On Thu Nov 20 09:53:17 2014 GMT+0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > Debian have a hybrid they call GNU/kFreeBSD (FreeBSD kernel but GNU C > library) that can be run in a chroot or jail under FreeBSD: > https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_FAQ#Q._Can_I_run_Debian_GNU.2FkFreeBSD_in_a_chroot_under_FreeBSD.3F > This may indeed be a viable temporay option, however ideally I'd like to get beignet to run natively as this will also make adoption by other users much easier and I definitely know of a few that would like to have easy to use OpenCL on FreeBSD. Especially since the future of kFreeBSD seems a bit uncertain. > It includes beignet, but I don't know if anyone has tried to use that on > it. To use OpenCL in a chroot, the device (usually /dev/dri/card0) > needs to be visible from inside, e.g. by bind-mounting /dev/dri. Yes, this should be no problem, obviously some security protocols are in place for both chroots and jails but these can be configured. Thanks again! Johannes _______________________________________________ Beignet mailing list Beignet@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/beignet
