On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Guillermo Rozas <guille2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,

> On 22/06/2017 22:26, Germano Massullo wrote:
>> Forget using OpenCL without proprietary drivers, but there is a way to
>> use them without having to install it permanently: if you use a Radeon
>> RX card you can simply unpack the proprietary OpenCL driver somewhere
>> and let darktable use it.

> Honest question: what is the sense of doing this? If one is using the
> open source drive on "moral grounds", taking the OpenCL blob from it
> and using it when convenient doesn't make it any less closed. I
> confess that I don't know the status of the proprietary drivers for
> AMD, are they fundamentally worse than the open ones?
There are no functional/usable/not-broken  free/open source opencl drivers.
At least if you try to use darktable, and not just run some toy benchmarks.

> Best regards,
> Guillermo
Roman.

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