Radeon ROCm 2.6 To Support Intel Vega M Chips

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon ROCm 2.6 To Support Intel Vega M Chips

The Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) stack will begin to support the Intel Kabylake-G chips with the "Vega M" graphics...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ROCm-Vega-M-Coming

[andrei_me]

Can this backported to 2.5 or older?

[squash]

Kind of surprised this wasn't the case already. I would have been pretty disappointed were I a Kabylake-G owner!

[nuetzel]

drm-next-5.3-wip

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/commit/?h=drm-next-5.3-wip&id=9c5ab937b15f87523dd057ba05b9869331283286

amd-staging-drm-next

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/commit/?h=amd-staging-drm-next&id=e37fa28949e06b62045d7b9637deea17e958aeaa

[gsedej]

Kind of surprised this wasn't the case already. I would have been pretty disappointed were I a Kabylake-G owner!

All ryzan apu users are. No hip (cuda) support, only opencl

[Meteorhead]

And you'd think APU users would be frustrated only on Linux. One of the nicest gaming laptopts with an AMD APU has had issues for quite some time now. In the release notes of 19.5.2 as well as 19.6.1 it still says:

ASUS TUF Gaming FX505 may experience discrete GPU connection issues with devices disappearing from device manager when the system is idle.

I would definitely be annoyed by that. Anyhow, I just recently gave up on trying to get SYCL to work on my Windows box. I installed my system afresh (had update issues) and I didn't install the outdated 18.5.2 drivers. I'll just use the Intel CPU runtime for development until AMD finally ports ROCm to Windows or they just reinstantiate the SPIR compiler for their Windows driver. (The CPU would be nice too, because the Intel runtime is having issues with the OpenCL-OpenGL interop codes when used with AMD processors.) My general perception of AMD compute is worse by the day. I very much hope that Intel is going to up their game and we'll see gaming capable notebooks with Intel dGPUs and prime time OpenCL-SYCL support.