Why is my OpenCL version 8 years old?

[username1029]

I'm on Debian Stable, and I've found an Radeon HD 5450 graphics card that I'm running with an Intel CPU.

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Version : OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 13.0.6

This version was apparently "ratified" in 2010:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#OpenCL_1.1

Apparently this is the newest version available on my machine, even though OpenCL 2.2 now exists. Is there any newer version available at all on Debian? It seems odd that the version should be this old.

[stevepusser]

What do you get for

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apt policy ocl-icd-libopencl1

Maybe, like an older Intel card that only supports openGL 2.1 on Stretch when a newer one reports 4.5, your hardware just doesn't support a newer standard.

[username1029]

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!

What do you get for ...

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$ apt policy ocl-icd-libopencl1
ocl-icd-libopencl1:
  Installed: 2.2.11-1
  Candidate: 2.2.11-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.11-1 500
        500 http://[*]debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I'm not really sure how to interpet it, but I guess there's nothing that's compatible with the hardware? Couldn't find anything relevant in the package db. The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to run some tests using hashcat, but it gives me this error:

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Device #1: Kernel [long-name] not found in cache! Building may take a while...
clBuildProgram(): CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE
OpenCL version 1.1 does not support the 'static' storage class specifier

Some suggestions I've seen online include "you need to try vendor drivers which include the vendors own OpenCL runtime", so maybe I'll try that.

[stevepusser]

A little google-fu gave me this rather discouraging result: https://community.amd.com/thread/223413

[username1029]

Ah, I see. That's okay. Someone had thrown away this entire computer simply because the PSU was broken. I guess I'll simply find a somewhat newer card.
Thank you so much for the help!