What is relationship between driver and compute runtime?

[alanzhai219]

Hi,
I just read the guide https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/driver/client/overview.html.
Also, there is an install guide on the compute-runtime release page https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases.

What is the relationship between them? Thanks.

[alanzhai219]

ping

[PiotrRozenfeld]

Installation instructions provided with compute-runtime releases are focused on getting Compute (Level Zero & OpenCL) APIs functional.
dgpu-docs.intel.com instructions are wider in scope, and include the Compute packages as well as Media and 3D drivers.

[alanzhai219]

@PiotrRozenfeld Could you share the map relationship of deb name and apt install name？

[rszwicht]

@alanzhai219 deb names and apt install names are usually the same (except the version number in the deb name).

[eero-t]

Note that (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora...) distributions package names for compute-runtime may differ from package names used in this project, and packages Intel repos. At least they've historically differed.

When distros started packaging Intel compute-runtime, they chose different package names than what compute-runtime project itself already used. I would assume compute-runtime and Intel repos will eventually adopt the new names used by corresponding distros, but for a while there can still be dependency issues, e.g. until xpu-smi package is updated, or driver packages use Provides field for their name(s).