AMDKFD GPUVM Support Updated For Radeon Discrete GPUs

[ernstp]

Will it work with Blender? I was playing around with Blender around Christmas and it drove me crazy that I didn't have OpenCL acceleration for rendering. It took forever to render my simple scene, hopefully this will revolutionize the workflow.

There are a couple methods to have very nice OpenCL acceleration available. For example running a vanilla Ubuntu 16.04.3 with rocm-dkms, just follow the instructions here: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm

This news is about a fully upstream solution, which is something else..

[gsedej]

What will AMDKFD enable on dGPU? my rx480 already works fine with some opencl tasks.

[Azpegath]

Will it work with Blender? I was playing around with Blender around Christmas and it drove me crazy that I didn't have OpenCL acceleration for rendering. It took forever to render my simple scene, hopefully this will revolutionize the workflow.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDKFD GPUVM Support Updated For Radeon Discrete GPUs

Many of you have been anxious to get ROCm/OpenCL compute working with the open-source Radeon Linux driver on modern GPUs while using a mainline kernel and that day continues inching closer...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDKFD-GPUVM-V2