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 installed. OpenCL loader library is supposed to be agnostic to the kernel loaded (nvidia libOpenCL.so will run amd kernels for example) but testing has shown significant performance differences when using OpenCL implementations from different vendors. System must have libOpenCL.so used at build time in order to run an application using OpenCL As the number of OpenCL applications grows there will be packaging conflicts between those built against nvidia/ocl and potentially other vendor OpenCL implementations as they are added to ubuntu. Solution: ocl-icd-libopencl1 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/ocl-icd- libopencl1) provides an open source implementation of libOpenCL.so that will work with vendor OpenCL kernels files provided by intel/nvidia/amd. Policy for packages to use ocl-icd as the default implementation, allowing the use of other kernel loaders for alternative packages in the same source package(if desired) ** Affects: fglrx-driver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: ocl-icd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fglrx-driver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1328542 Title: OCL-ICD provides a free generic OpenCL implementation, should ubuntu policy be to build applications against this loader vs closed vendor implementations To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-driver/+bug/1328542/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
