[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1328542] Re: [xorg-edgers] OCL-ICD provides a free generic OpenCL implementation, should ubuntu policy be to build applications against this loader vs closed vendor implementation

@Graham libviennacl-dev has a build-depends on libopencl1 (virtual) and does not specify a suggested implementation (although this is against policy, so probably can be filed as a bug against that package) . opencl loaders *should* be interchangeable if they follow the traditional virtual package

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1328542] [NEW] OCL-ICD provides a free generic OpenCL implementation, should ubuntu policy be to build applications against this loader vs closed vendor implementations

Public bug reported: Relevant Packages: ocl-icd-libopencl1 Applications that wish to use OpenCL encounter a few problems when you attempt to distribute them. PROBLEM: Applications compiled against one implementation of OpenCL (libOpenCL.so) will not run on a system with another implementation

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1328542] Re: OCL-ICD provides a free generic OpenCL implementation, should ubuntu policy be to build applications against this loader vs closed vendor implementations

Minor Problem: Ubuntu does not have vendor provided OpenCL kernels for AMD/Intel in the repositories or ones compatible with cpu-only environments (fglrx should provide amd-opencl-icd, but as of trusty this is not true) - https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd-opencl-icd , can these be pushed in as