Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > Wrong, I say, WROOOOONG!!!!!
No reason to go into hysterics. Think of your blood pressure! ;-) > OpenCl is not OpenGL. It is more of a framework than an API. A high > end machine may have a number of different OpenCL hosts, the cpu, > vector cores built into the cpu as in the AMD APU line and intel's > lame knockoff thereof. =P > > There is also OpenCL support in GPUs, Xeon Phi, FPGA and potentially > other devices too. > > The game Planet Explorers (available on Steam) demonstrates how this > should be used. You are given a menu at the start of the game that > lists the available OpenCL implementations. You then select whatever > device you want to use for OpenCL that day... > > So there should not be eselect OpenCL, All gentoo needs to do is > enforce standards on where the relevant libraries are stored and the > application will select which one to use. You should better report this to the developers of the respective applications. I'm not an expert on this, but I think this is nothing that the gentoo developers can do. And I think it's better to have "eselect OpenCL" than nothing. -- Regards wabe
