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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:00:52 +0100
From: Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@...uxasylum.net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: format names for GPU-enabled implementations

On 02/19/12 19:48, magnum wrote:
> On 02/18/2012 06:48 PM, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote:
>> i'm a bit unfamiliar with cuda but i think we can't merge them:
>> cuda is nvidia only therefore on nvidia cards it would compile but
>> that's not possible on ati .
> 
> No problem, I kept the -opencl and -cuda targets so you can chose to
> only build one type. I added -gpu targets that builds both types. Given
> that having CUDA always implies having OpenCL (is that right?), we might
> eventually want to drop the targets that only builds CUDA, but for now I
> think we should not.

as far as i know if you have CUDA you should have OpenCL also.
i agree at the moment is good to have cuda targets too.

> 
>> about documentation there's a Redme.opencl on the doc dir, which is
>> something i did in the spare time.
>> unfortunately i'm still a noob with git and pull requeste so i will add
>> it here for simplicity
> 
> Thanks, I just committed this to the git branches.
> 

cheers
Samuele

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