Bug#803636: ITP: hsakmt -- thunk library for AMD's HSA Linux kernel driver (amdkfd)

[Kari Pahula <kaol@debian.org>]

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.
 .
 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.