Changes/OpenCL

Change Proposal Name OpenCL

Summary

This change will bring initial OpenCL support to Fedora. This will include enabling Mesa's OpenCL state-tracker and the introduction of several OpenCL related packages.

Owner

• Name: Fabian Deutsch
• Email: fabiand@fedoraproject.org
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 21
• Last updated: 2013-07-17
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

The change will include the following sub changes:

• Enable OpenCL state-tracker in Mesa
• Update existing OpenCL related packages if needed
• Package libclc - needed by Mesa's state-tracker
• Package pocl - CPU-only OpenCL implementation
• Package gocl - glib based OpenCL library
• Package radeontop - To monitor a Radeon GPU (which supports OpenCL)
• Fix OpenCL path owenrship - In /etc/OpenCL
• Package piglit - This will be a testuite for the OpenCL implementations

• Add a new group to comps.

Benefit to Fedora

Developres will have an easier start to develop OpenCL based software on Fedora. Furthermore this shall be seen as a step o bring OpenCL based software to Linux in general.

Scope

• Proposal owners: Mainly packaging

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

This is a pure enhancements, so nothing should break.

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)