Hi all, here is the log of an IRC conversation on Freenode's #radeon channel (dedicated to the Free-as-in-speech video-radeon driver for ATI cards) which clarifies some claims given here - http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/2011-December/008335.html
<<<< Feb 28 20:09:02 <rindolf> Hi all. Feb 28 20:10:38 <rindolf> Will there be any chance we would see OpenCL support in the video-radeon driver (not fglrx) now that Nvidia open-sourced the LLVM CUDA support and that the Nouveau people have implemented open-source OpenCL support in their open-source Nouveau driver? Feb 28 20:11:58 <tstellar> rindolf: It's being worked on now, latest code is here: cgit.freedesktop.org/~tstellar/mesa clover-r600-master Feb 28 20:12:43 <rindolf> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~tstellar/mesa - URL which can be clicked. Feb 28 20:27:22 <agd5f> rindolf: also FWIW, nvidia didn't open source anything yet. The CUDA stuff is not open source Feb 28 20:28:54 <rindolf> agd5f: I see. Feb 28 20:29:43 <rindolf> agd5f: so what was the big announcement about? Future intentions? Feb 28 20:31:04 <agd5f> phoronix said it was open source but it's not, probably to boost ad revenue Feb 28 20:32:28 <glisse> i think it's open source to restricted people right now ... which i have hard time to understand how Feb 28 20:34:05 <rindolf> glisse: you mean it is “source available” to restricted people right now - not “open-source” Feb 28 20:34:07 <agd5f> they are basically making the src available by request under unknown terms. probably mostly targeting academics and certain other businesses that need the src Feb 28 20:35:07 <glisse> rindolf: i mean some people have access to source, why you could have access or not is unclear Feb 28 20:35:15 <glisse> you need to sign something with them i think Feb 28 20:35:20 <glisse> so it's not open source Feb 28 20:35:20 <rindolf> glisse: I see. Feb 28 20:35:26 <rindolf> glisse: yes. Feb 28 20:35:29 <glisse> or someone would have pushed it somewhere Feb 28 20:37:19 <agd5f> rindolf: the press release says nothing about source code: http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/Major-New-NVIDIA-CUDA-Release-Makes-It-Faster-and-Easier-to-Accelerate-Scientific-Research-With-GPUs-757.aspx Feb 28 20:38:01 <rindolf> agd5f: OK. >>>> So in this case, the Greeks did not bear any gifts (though there is FOSS OpenCL-support from the nouveau people and an upcoming one for the FOSS video-radeon driver.). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg The X in XSLT stands for eXtermination. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
