[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 10/11] package/mesa3d: enable OpenCL support

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Apr 2 12:03:01 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 12:36:05 +0200, Valentin Korenblit wrote:

> > 	bool "OpenCL"
> >  
> >> +	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_GALLIUM_DRIVER_R600  
> > This is certainly not really understanding how OpenCL works, but why do
> > you need this Gallium driver compiled in? Does the result only works on
> > a system with an AMD GPU ?  
> 
> Mesa's OpenCL implementation works only on AMD GPUs using Gallium Drivers.

OK. Maybe a comment on top of this dependency would make sense then,
and perhaps the commit title should be "enable OpenCL on AMD GPUs" or
something like that.

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com



More information about the buildroot mailing list