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OpenCL for Arndale board and Nexus 10

rahul garg
Note: This was originally posted on 7th November 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

Wondering if OpenCL drivers will be made available for Arndale Board for Linux and Android, preferably without NDAs? And will we see OpenCL drivers shipping on Nexus 10?

edit: I am aiming to port my OpenCL projects (including this library: http://www.raijincl.org) to the Mali. Hoping we get to see OpenCL real soon on shipping devices.
  • Note: This was originally posted on 9th November 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    Hi Rahulgarg

    ARM do not currently make userspace libraries available to end users, as we deliver the source code directly to licensees who would then pass the compiled binaries on to their customers. The Nexus 10 and Arndale platforms certainly have Mali hardware that is OpenCL compatible, but it is up to the vendors in these case to make the libraries available to end users.

    Hope this helps, please let me know if you have any further questions,

    Chris
  • Note: This was originally posted on 25th November 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    I guess Rahul asked for drivers and not user-space libraries.

    I wish to buy samsung exynos 5 Arndale board and expect to write some opencl programs for mali T604.
    So I install a linaro build of ubuntu on it. I need an opencl driver for linux running on an ARM cpu.
    Will that be available soon? and who will provide it? ARM or Arndale community?
  • Note: This was originally posted on 25th November 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    Hi krrrishnarraj,

    The userspace libraries and the kernel space modules (.so's and .ko's) are collectively referred to as the driver stack. libGLESv2.so, libOpenCL.so, libMali.so etc are all userspace components of the driver stack, and as mentioned above, the source code to these components is only provided as part of the DDK distributed to our licencees. It is the responsibility of the vendor of the SoC (Samsung in this case) to deliver these libraries, or sublicense the source code to their OEM's (Insignal in this case), who them pass them on as part of their product. ARM do not currently provide these libraries to end users. Typically only the kernel space components are provided by ARM under open source licenses on malideveloper.com.

    Please let me know if you need any clarification, but essentially you would need to approach Insignal who make the Arndale platform, and ask them to make the necessary components available to you.

    Thanks,
    Chris.
  • Note: This was originally posted on 28th November 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    Dear Chris,

    At 30th October, the official Twitter-channel @ARMMultimedia promised us a BSP. Screenshot:



    I have put this information on my website and have shared this promise: http://www.streamcomputing.eu/knowledge/sdks/samsung-exynos-5-board/

    It is really for the best of all to point a general contact-person for developers who want to develop OpenCL on the MALI T604 using the Arndale board. I don't mind if it is ARM, Insignal or Samsung, as long as it is clear.

    Kind regards,
    Vincent Hindriksen
    (StreamComputing)
  • Note: This was originally posted on 3rd December 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    Hi all,

    InSignal is the official distributor of the Arndale boards and owns provision of Board Support Packages to the general public. Please contact them directly for up-to-date schedules. Work is ongoing on a Linux BSP including OpenCL support and this is expected to be released very shortly.

    Thanks,
    Chris
  • Note: This was originally posted on 9th December 2012 at http://forums.arm.com


    Hi all,

    InSignal is the official distributor of the Arndale boards and owns provision of Board Support Packages to the general public. Please contact them directly for up-to-date schedules. Work is ongoing on a Linux BSP including OpenCL support and this is expected to be released very shortly.

    Thanks,
    Chris


    WOW. that's great news. A linux BSP supporting opencl in the pipeline..
    I am going to buy exynos 5 chromebook