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ScottRobertLadd

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Registered: 2016-04-15

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OpenCL development on Intel i7-4770R

I'm running current Arch Linux (netrunner 2016.1, updated daily) on an Intel i7-4770R, running only the built-in graphics.

I need to get OpenCL development going, and the following guide gives me package requirements that yaourt says are "orphaned" and dangerous:

          https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GPGPU

Do I need to manually install the intel drivers directly from their site?

Does anyone intend to "unorphan" the yaourt packages? Should I dive in and fix this?

Last edited by ScottRobertLadd (2016-04-15 17:19:27)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: OpenCL development on Intel i7-4770R

I'm 99.9 % certain Netrunner is not archlinux, but a derivative from manjaro which is a derivative of archlinux.

For intel systems i only see solutions mentioned that run openCL on the cpu, NOT the graphics chipset.

I think intel uses something called beignet for openCLon graphic chipset.

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ScottRobertLadd

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Registered: 2016-04-15

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Re: OpenCL development on Intel i7-4770R

Actually, I do everything the Arch way, maintaining the system purely with Arch's pacman / yaourt and using Arch web docs. I like netrunner's pretties when I'm not buried in bash. It may be netrunner <- manjaro < archlinux, but Arch is the prominent heart.

Back to the topic, I found the solution to my OpenCL questions here: https://wiki.tiker.net/OpenCLHowTo

And yes, the Intel ICD is limited to the processor's 8 cores and OpenCL 1.2 (not 2.0 / 2.1). Very annoying.