[Question] Nvidia Drivers Required for Kernel Math Functions?
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Hello all,
Codon seems like such a cool project! I was looking through the documentation and saw that you use [libdevice for math functions on the GPU](https://docs.exaloop.io/parallel/gpu/#libdevice). Is this an absolute requirement to run GPU kernels with math functions at present?
I have an nvida and an amd gpu but I prefer to use open source drivers ([NVK](https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/nvk.html)[[1](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html)], ROCm, and [Mesa OpenCL](https://mesa3d.org/)/[Zink](https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/zink.html)[[2](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2018/10/31/introducing-zink-opengl-implementation-vulkan/)]).
Additionally I wanted to ask if there are any plans/openness to allow OpenCL/Open Drivers/Other Alternatives (maybe Vulkan compute shaders?) implementation?
Thanks!
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