commit: 6fffb5ba5e48e4f0c25309d52090633cf7540695 Author: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Mon Feb 24 19:09:04 2020 +0000 Commit: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Mon Feb 24 19:10:31 2020 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6fffb5ba
profiles: mask dev-libs/beignet for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/710640 Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki <AT> gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask index a79f759aacb..79f23004d41 100644 --- a/profiles/package.mask +++ b/profiles/package.mask @@ -32,6 +32,21 @@ #--- END OF EXAMPLES --- +# Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org> (2020-02-24) +# Deprecated upstream in Q1'2018 in favour of dev-libs/intel-neo and +# while it officially remains the recommended solution for "legacy HW +# platforms" not supported by NEO (i.e. Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and +# Haswell GPUs), there has been no repository activity since August 2018. +# Only really suitable for code development due to poor performance, some +# OpenCL-aware software (e.g. media-gfx/darktable) explicitly +# blacklists Beignet devices. +# Upstream does not support LLVM versions newer than 7, third-party patches +# exist for 8 and 9 but Beignet built against those versions fails some +# unit tests. +# +# Removal in 30 days. Bug #710640. +dev-libs/beignet + # Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> (2020-02-24) # app-admin/packagekit-base is Python 2 only and behind upstream. # The Portage backend is unmaintained. Other packages are its reverse
