On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 at 23:13, Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 16/12/2024 21:43, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote:
>> removed support for GPU Generations prior to the
>> 12th Gen GPUs. This effectively means that any hardware released
>> before 2020 is no longer supported for OpenCL and oneAPI workloads.
>
> If it removes such a huge list of hardware, a compatibility package
> should be introduced (check nvidia-470xx, nvidia-390xx as an example).
+1
This is planned obsolescence at its best. Intel-controlled software dropping
support for older (Intel) hardware to force you to buy new one to replace
it.
We have come to expect that from proprietary software, including the
proprietary NVidia driver, but for Free Software, this is a new low.
Introducing a compatibility package is the least we can do. Ideally, the
project should be forked upstream to restore support for older hardware.
That's the joy of open source, anyone is free to do that. The older hardware can also be used via mesa rusticl which already works and has the advantage it's not controlled by the vendor and is also vendor independent and hence works the same across a bunch of different vendors and architectures :)
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