SYCL Support on i.MX8M SoCs

[muyao_chen]

I found SYCL very interesting and I wanted to test it on my i.MX8M board. When I ran the test program computecpp_info of ComputeCPP, I have this output :

Device is supported                     : NO - Device does not support SPIR

Apparently, the SoC i.MX8M does not support SPIR-V. And I have looked at the list of all the platforms supported by SYCL, there isn't a single case on ARM64.

Does anyone know why SPIR is not supported on this SoC? Is it a hardware problem or just a software problem? Can we eventually implement SPIR and SYCL to i.MX8 board?

[CarlosCasillas]

Hi Muyao,
It seems that SYCL is not part of the NXP BSP. However, if it is based on OpenCL, there is some reference material that could help you. Please take a look at the following Community document:

Where to find the OpenCL libraries for iMX8MQ development kit to cross compile any OpenCL applicatio...

Hope this will be useful for you.
Best regards!
/Carlos
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[muyao_chen]

Hello Carlos,

Thank you for your response. Actually, I have OpenCL available on my board (at least OpenCV told me so). However, I can't pass SYCL's test. It might not be a problem of OpenCL, but that of SPIR(Standard, Portable Intermediate Representation - V), something that interprets C++ codes to OpenCL understandable C codes.

So my question is if it's possible to integrate SPIR into the BSP of i.MX8M.

Regards,

Muyao