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And GPGPU is mostly only uploading code to run on the chip (lots of functionnality which is used for 3D is not used for GPGPU), so as long as the the few OpenCL specific hardwaare functionnality is supported, OpenCL is ready to go.įor an up-to-date 3D support, there's still a lot of work to go into the Gallium OpenGL state tracker so it supports all the API and functionnality necessary for OpenGL 4.2. OpenCL is mostly done (unlike OpenGL which is only currently achieving OpenGL 3.0 support in Mesa 8.0, whereas the current OpenGL implementation is 4.2 - so several versions behind). That's also why OpenCL has been so quickly added to Nouveau: because it's cheap. But some of these effort benefit also the 3D API or any other front-end running on Gallium3D (in theory, even the Gallium3D powered DirectX 10/11 front-end could partly benefit of these efforts). These are efforts done by the Nouveau team. efforts to bring enough of the hardware functionnality into the Nouveau back-end.
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(Mostly the initial Clover project, then Google Summer of Code, etc.) And these are efforts done (mostly) independently of the back-end used (a lot is done on the CPU backends like LLVMpipe, but could also be used on Nouveau, AMD's R600g or the Gallium drivers for Intel developped by Google). These are efforts done be people external to the Nouveau project. efforts in impoving the OpenCL state tracker until it can support enough of the OpenCL API. So bringing OpenCL to Nouveau boils down to : You could in theory just freely slap any front-end on any back-end (and it's mostly that way in reality, hence the popularity of Gallium3D). You just have back-end exporting hardware functionnality on one hand, and front-end supporting various API on the other hand. Gallium3D is very modular (that's the main reason it's popular in the open source). Putting OpenCL in there doesn't divert that much ressources from Nouveau.
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We are still waiting on OpenCL 3.0 support out of the AMD / ROCm Linux compute stack.So it seems silly to be putting time into OpenCL. There is also work-in-progress OpenCL 3.0 for Mesa's Clover. Outside of the NVIDIA scope, Intel's open-source stack supports OpenCL 3.0 under Linux.
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OpenCL 3.0 allows for an easy upgrade path from OpenCL 1.2, but with all the optional bits, it will be interesting to see all of what capabilities are being supported by NVIDIA's OpenCL 3.0 driver. The Khronos Group released OpenCL 3.0 officially in September after being announced in April 2020. But with OpenCL 3.0 the SVM support and other CL 2.x features are made optional, thereby allowing NVIDIA and other vendors to support their desired subset of functionality above OpenCL 1.2. NVIDIA's drivers have been notably absent of supporting OpenCL 2.x that was said to be due to Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) issues. Such features not explicitly tied closely into the OS/platform tend to be supported across NVIDIA's Windows and Linux drivers roughly around the same time.
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Today's R470 beta (470.05) driver drop is the WSL/Windows driver build but considering NVIDIA's driver stack is largely shared across platforms and OpenCL is equally - or even more - important on Linux systems, it's likely safe to assume their Linux driver will also be supporting OpenCL 3.0 either for its inaugural 470 series beta or shortly thereafter. What makes this notable though is the driver adding support for OpenCL 3.0. NVIDIA today released an updated WSL driver for use on Windows 10. Making it all the more exciting is it looks like the NVIDIA 470 series driver will have OpenCL 3.0 support. We are already quite eager for NVIDIA's 470 series Linux driver due to Wayland / DMA-BUF improvements coming to this next major feature release for their proprietary driver stack.