On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 01:03:53PM -0600, Dann Frazier wrote: >> [ Reorganized to use inline replies ] >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Gunn <kevin.g...@canonical.com> wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> >> LP: #1586026 asks for the removal of binary packages on arm64 which >> >> cannot be built with OpenGL ES. Do we really have to cripple an >> >> architecture like this? I don't see any discussion about this. How >> >> does this affect things like GPU accelerators and CUDA aware packages? > >> > hey Matthias, >> > after reading the bug, it's implied the binaries being asked for removal >> > were somehow built with gl (possibly sw implementation of gl?)....please >> > cmiiaw > >> > as to the request, never say never, but at least i've never seen an arm >> > chipset in the wild with a gl enabled gpu (like the bug indicates they're >> > all gles). >> > so i'm not sure of the value of having those binaries present where at >> > least >> > in real application, there's no gl ? > >> Ubuntu supports a growing number of ARM servers that have PCIe slots, >> so external GPUs can be added. CUDA is supported on those platforms >> upstream: >> https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-65 >> And I do know there are users interested in CUDA on Ubuntu/arm64. > >> I'm not experienced with CUDA myself - and don't have a card to test it - but >> it would be good to know if we're breaking that use case ahead of time. > > I agree that CUDA should be a concern on arm64. However, this bug report is > about changes to the Qt GL stack on arm64. Qt is a GUI toolkit; I don't see > any reason that building Qt for GLES instead of GL should impact CUDA, do > you?
If this change goes no deeper than the Qt stack, then no. > And while ARM64 servers have PCIe slots and can take GPUs, I don't expect > this to mean that we want to support a desktop stack in such a > configuration. I don't know of any such use cases. -dann > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel