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Subject: Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up
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> By the beginning of this year Pathscale introduced a kind of compiler
> capable of HMPP, a very smart model
> like OpenMP. This compiler seems not to be ready by now and I never got
> access to a beta version to test
> whether it was capable of compiling CUDA ready code. As far as I know,
> HMPP is also an "open" standard.
>
> Well, conclusively, there seems no real solution to be present for
> FreeBSD by now (as I mentioned, the
> Linuxulator is no real alternative due to its 32bit limitations).

Christopher Bergstr=F6m of PathScale offered to serve as an advocate for
release of portions of PathScale's code so that it could be used in
FreeBSD [1].  Did anyone take him up on it?  I'd think that
negotiations of this sort would be of interest to the FreeBSD
Foundation and other parties.

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-June/231181.h=
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