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Feature request: OpenCL for HDX

I was not sure which forum to post this on, but I have a feature request. Snapdragon 800 and Adreno 330 found in the HDX tablets is capable of OpenCL but afaik amazon does not provide an SDK for it. Qualcomm does have working driver and provides OpenCL support on some developer boards. Would be great if Amazon provides the headers/libraries required to use OpenCL from the NDK on HDX tablets. Google seems opposed to OpenCL, but I hope Amazon provides access to it so that we can take the best advantage of the awesome hardware in the HDX.
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shsanjp answered
I second that. I would love to see the OpenCL drivers and SDK available on the Kindle HDX.
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I would like to also state my interest. Currently solutions such as Renderscript Compute are really poor and I am already writing OpenCL code for many other platforms. OpenCL support would be very helpful for allowing me to accelerating my image processing code and bring in new filters which previously were not possible because they took far too long.
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Sujoy@Amazon answered
Thanks all for the valuable feedback. We have forwarded this to the appropriate team for consideration.
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