I realize this is a lot to just ask without the time and ability to implement and maintain the necessary changes myself. Hence, I’ll spare you the long-winded political speech. The gist of it is: You can’t call something free and open source software when it depends on and endorses proprietary components whose only purpose is vendor lock-in.
AliceVision should be able to work without CUDA, no matter how glacially slowly. I prefer inefficient CPU-only computation that spills registers and caches all over the place over a requirement for GPUs with inferior Linux support and very unstable drivers (my GTX 960 keeps freezing my computer whenever NVIDIA’s driver decides it doesn’t want to do memory management anymore, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to report this problem to NVIDIA unless you’re a big corp and there’s money involved). I simply don’t have the patience to deal with this garbage, and I desperately want to move to a different GPU vendor so I get proper support for my platform.
Ideally, the CUDA parts should be ported to an open platform such as Vulkan or the older OpenCL.
I realize this is a lot to just ask without the time and ability to implement and maintain the necessary changes myself. Hence, I’ll spare you the long-winded political speech. The gist of it is: You can’t call something free and open source software when it depends on and endorses proprietary components whose only purpose is vendor lock-in.
AliceVision should be able to work without CUDA, no matter how glacially slowly. I prefer inefficient CPU-only computation that spills registers and caches all over the place over a requirement for GPUs with inferior Linux support and very unstable drivers (my GTX 960 keeps freezing my computer whenever NVIDIA’s driver decides it doesn’t want to do memory management anymore, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to report this problem to NVIDIA unless you’re a big corp and there’s money involved). I simply don’t have the patience to deal with this garbage, and I desperately want to move to a different GPU vendor so I get proper support for my platform.
Ideally, the CUDA parts should be ported to an open platform such as Vulkan or the older OpenCL.