Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kari Pahula <k...@debian.org>
* Package name : hsakmt Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. * URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/amd/hsakmt/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : thunk library for AMD's HSA Linux kernel driver (amdkfd) hsakmt is a thunk library that provides a userspace interface to amdkfd (AMD's HSA Linux kernel driver). It is the HSA equivalent of libdrm. . Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) is a computer processor architecture that integrates central processing units and graphics processors on the same bus, with shared memory and tasks. The HSA is being developed by the HSA Foundation, which includes (among many others) AMD and ARM. The platform's stated aim is to reduce communication latency between CPUs, GPUs and other compute devices, and make these various devices more compatible from a programmer's perspective, relieving the programmer of the task of planning the moving of data between devices' disjoint memories (as must currently be done with OpenCL or CUDA). This library is needed (along with hsa-runtime, ITP for that will follow later) to enable HSA features in AMD's Kaveri and Carrizo APUs. The amdkfd driver is already included in the mainline kernel.
