[Rpm-ecosystem] Requires based on destination hardware

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sat Dec 12 16:52:08 UTC 2015


On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 01:54:12PM +0000, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With OpenCL currently we have some implementations:
> * Beignet (Intel GPU)
> * POCL (Any CPU)
> * mesa-LibOpenCL (AMD GPU, probably something supported fro NVIDIA GPU)
> 
> I am thinking how to make it user-friendly. Any ideas?

Detect if the hardware is unsupported and fail nicely, printing an
clear message?

Please don't try to encode the hardware support in packaging —
it is not flexible enough, and even if it was, installations should be
tied to particular hardware.

Zbyszek


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