Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:31:46 +0100 "O. Hartmann" wrote: > So far, FreeBSD does have the support of a native driver by nVidia. > But there are no compatible FreeBSD VUDA libraries, there is no > working "compiler" (nvcc does only run on Linux and expects still in > conjunction with the CUDA SDK 4.

Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
A lot of the linux work is pushed not by hobbyists, but by large companies with customers that request support. Don't mislead yourself by thinking all this Linux work gets done by a large number of unpaid volunteers. Go look at the contribution statistics sometime. If people would like to see CUD

Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/12/12 14:34, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 19:16 09/03/2012, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> On 9 March 2012 09:31, O. Hartmann >> wrote: >> > Well, having to pick up existing ideas and incarntions of those for >> > Linux is always a pain in the ass, but necessary at the moment. The >> > "experts" negle

Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-12 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 19:16 09/03/2012, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 9 March 2012 09:31, O. Hartmann wrote: > Well, having to pick up existing ideas and incarntions of those for > Linux is always a pain in the ass, but necessary at the moment. The > "experts" neglected long time the need for keeping FBSD on par with KMS

Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-09 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 9 March 2012 09:31, O. Hartmann wrote: > Well, having to pick up existing ideas and incarntions of those for > Linux is always a pain in the ass, but necessary at the moment. The > "experts" neglected long time the need for keeping FBSD on par with KMS > stuff or all the other development done

Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-09 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/09/12 14:35, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 12:36 09/03/2012, you wrote: >> Sorry if you feel boring by those messages, but soem of us still get wet >> eyes when it comes to OpenCL and LLVm (LLVM is supposed to become soon >> the backend compiler in FreeBSD, as I understand). On PHORONIX I read >

Re: OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 12:36 09/03/2012, you wrote: Sorry if you feel boring by those messages, but soem of us still get wet eyes when it comes to OpenCL and LLVm (LLVM is supposed to become soon the backend compiler in FreeBSD, as I understand). On PHORONIX I read this message days ago: http://www.phoronix.com/sca

OpenCL backend for LLVM

2012-03-09 Thread O. Hartmann
Sorry if you feel boring by those messages, but soem of us still get wet eyes when it comes to OpenCL and LLVm (LLVM is supposed to become soon the backend compiler in FreeBSD, as I understand). On PHORONIX I read this message days ago: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2NzM I