I just go my hands on a 5870, put it in my Archlinux box, installed the latest catalyst drivers and amdstream 2.3, but opencl apps don't detect the card.
Here is the output of lspci:
03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
and clinfo:
Number of platforms: 1
Platform Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Platform Version: OpenCL 1.1 ATI-Stream-v2.3 (451)
Platform Name: ATI Stream
Platform Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices
Platform Name: ATI Stream
Number of devices: 1
Device Type: CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU
Device ID: 4098
Max compute units: 2
Max work items dimensions: 3
Max work items[0]: 1024
Max work items[1]: 1024
Max work items[2]: 1024
Max work group size: 1024
Preferred vector width char: 16
Preferred vector width short: 8
Preferred vector width int: 4
Preferred vector width long: 2
Preferred vector width float: 4
Preferred vector width double: 0
Native vector width char: 16
Native vector width short: 8
Native vector width int: 4
Native vector width long: 2
Native vector width float: 4
Native vector width double: 0
Max clock frequency: 2009Mhz
Address bits: 64
Max memory allocation: 1073741824
Image support: No
Max size of kernel argument: 4096
Alignment (bits) of base address: 1024
Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype: 128
Single precision floating point capability
Denorms: Yes
Quiet NaNs: Yes
Round to nearest even: Yes
Round to zero: Yes
Round to +ve and infinity: Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add: No
Cache type: Read/Write
Cache line size: 64
Cache size: 65536
Global memory size: 3221225472
Constant buffer size: 65536
Max number of constant args: 8
Local memory type: Global
Local memory size: 32768
Kernel Preferred work group size multiple: 1
Error correction support: 0
Unified memory for Host and Device: 1
Profiling timer resolution: 1
Device endianess: Little
Available: Yes
Compiler available: Yes
Execution capabilities:
Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes
Execute native function: Yes
Queue properties:
Out-of-Order: No
Profiling : Yes
Platform ID: 0x7f9f262bf880
Name: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Driver version: 2.0
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.1 ATI-Stream-v2.3 (451)
Extensions: cl_amd_fp64 cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_ext_device_fission cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_media_ops cl_amd_popcnt cl_amd_printf
Any help is appreciated.