Bug#803636: ITP: hsakmt -- thunk library for AMD's HSA Linux kernel driver (amdkfd)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Kari Pahula <kaol@debian.org>
* Package name : hsakmt
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
* URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/amd/hsakmt/
* License : MIT/X
Programming Lang: C
Description : thunk library for AMD's HSA Linux kernel driver (amdkfd)
hsakmt is a thunk library that provides a userspace interface to
amdkfd (AMD's HSA Linux kernel driver). It is the HSA equivalent of
libdrm.
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Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) is a computer processor
architecture that integrates central processing units and graphics
processors on the same bus, with shared memory and tasks. The HSA is
being developed by the HSA Foundation, which includes (among many
others) AMD and ARM. The platform's stated aim is to reduce
communication latency between CPUs, GPUs and other compute devices,
and make these various devices more compatible from a programmer's
perspective, relieving the programmer of the task of planning the
moving of data between devices' disjoint memories (as must currently
be done with OpenCL or CUDA).
This library is needed (along with hsa-runtime, ITP for that will
follow later) to enable HSA features in AMD's Kaveri and Carrizo APUs.
The amdkfd driver is already included in the mainline kernel.
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