Radeon GPU Profiler 1.6 Released With Navi/RDNA Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon GPU Profiler 1.6 Released With Navi/RDNA Support

AMD's GPUOpen development team has kicked off the new week by releasing Radeon GPU Profiler 1.6, their open-source and cross-platform GPU profiling and analysis utility. With Radeon GPU Profiler 1.6 comes support for gathering insights on AMD Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" graphics processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-GPU-Profiler-1.6

[shmerl]

Profiler doesn't seem to be open source. It's a blob. Also, do you know if it works with radv?

[bridgman]

Profiler doesn't seem to be open source. It's a blob. Also, do you know if it works with radv?

There seem to be source archives... doesn't that count as open even if we also offer pre-built binaries ?

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/Rad...filer/releases

EDIT - looks like the source archives only contain documentation source, not program source. D'oh !!

[shmerl]

There seem to be source archives... doesn't that count as open even if we also offer pre-built binaries ?

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/Rad...filer/releases

But the actual source is not available, so it's not open? Or I'm missing something? That "source" bundle is just for some documentation, not for the actual binary.

I was trying to understand, if Stadia is using radv or amdvlk. And from this AMD press release, it looks like Stadia is intended to be backed by AMD GPU profiler. If it doesn't work with radv, then Stadia is using amdvlk.

I also see a request to open source the profiler (issue #1 in fact): https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/Rad...filer/issues/1

[bridgman]

Yeah, you're right. I saw "source archive" and thought, you know, "source archive"

Updated previous post accordingly.

[shmerl]

Yeah, you're right. I saw "source archive" and thought, you know, "source archive"

Updated previous post accordingly.

May be you can ping someone inside AMD about actually opening it? Is it one of those "legal review slowness" cases, or AMD doesn't want to open it for some specific reason?