lang/beignet removed?

[nonameless at ukr.net]

--- Original message ---
 From: "Jan Beich" <jbeich at freebsd.org>
 Date: 3 April 2020, 01:40:12
  


> nonameless at ukr.net writes:
> 
> > Hello list.
> >
> > Today I see that lang/beignet was removed. Commit message say: Deprecated upstream, use lang/intel-compute-runtime
> > But lang/intel-compute-runtime does not support Intel Haswell and older. How can I get support OpenCL 1.2 from my hardware now?
> 
> Via lang/pocl. FreeBSD Ports is not a museum for software abandoned upstream.
I agree with you. But lang/pocl is OpenCL driver that uses the CPU not GPU.

> Did you see how many patches lang/beignet had before being removed?
> Many were of questionable quality and, as Debian folks found out, support
> for new LLVM versions introduced regressions.
I see, so my question must be addressed to Intel.

> If possible switch to Vulkan Compute. Very few ports support OpenCL
> with Intel iGPU performance being slower than AVX2 even on Skylake.
It's not possible now, with Mesa 18.3.2.

Thanks for answer.