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Subject: Re: LLVM/CLANG and AMD GPU support, FreeBSD again excluded?
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On 12/06/10 17:31, O. Hartmann wrote:

> I know, the essential backend of this chain will be the AMD graphics
> card driver with its CAL compiler generating the binary code.

This is probably the biggest obstacle - AMD/ATI support for FreeBSD is 
terrible. Specifically in this case, there is no vendor-supplied driver 
at all.