AMD Releases ROCm 6.2.1 With FBGEMM Support, Installation Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Releases ROCm 6.2.1 With FBGEMM Support, Installation Improvements

Following the AMD ROCm 6.2 release from early August, ROCm 6.2.1 was released on Friday evening as the first point release to that series for this AMD GPU compute stack for Linux systems...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.2.1-Released

[Jumbotron]

ROCm is still a shitshow but at least AMD is not in danger of being bought by Qualcomm. Breaking news is Qualcomm has approached Intel to buy it !

https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/20/qualcomm-acquire-intel/

[Danny3]

Nice to see offline installer improvements!
I wish all software would be fully installable offline.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

It's great that the 3 supported consumer GPUs (all 7900 series) get a better installation experience .

[qarium]

ROCm is still a shitshow but at least AMD is not in danger of being bought by Qualcomm. Breaking news is Qualcomm has approached Intel to buy it !
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/20/qualcomm-acquire-intel/

qualcomm is trolling intel hardcore... first qualcomm did play game like they want intels new A18 node fab to produce chips and then later they said the fab node is garbage and produce to much defective error chips

now qualcomm want to buy intel completely and at the same time intel x86 is death and all want to go with ARM instead

[Dukenukemx]

ROCm is still a shitshow but at least AMD is not in danger of being bought by Qualcomm. Breaking news is Qualcomm has approached Intel to buy it !

https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/20/qualcomm-acquire-intel/

Qualcomm is the desperate one, not Intel. Remember that Qualcomm approached Intel, not the other way around. The Snapdragon X laptops aren't selling and they're about to lose their exclusivity deal with Microsoft. Adding to it that Intel is about to release their new chips that are designed to be efficient and take down Apple and Qualcomm's new chips. It's not like Qualcomm can actually afford to buy Intel. Intel has more than double the employees and several times the assets. Intel is criminally undervalued given their assets and Qualcomm knows it. Stock market valuations are stupid. They're hoping that Intel's top brass is greedy enough to take the buyout deal before Qualcomm's 3rd attempt at the Windows market goes bad yet again.

[tenplus1]

Will the new ROCm run alongside the open-source drivers within the linux kernel ?

[illwieckz]

The apt repository doesn't contain 6.2.1 yet: https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/
And the link to the offline installer is currently dead: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/i...installer.html

[aerospace]

Linux is not "Ubuntu", support more main distros please...

[Lycanthropist]

Will the new ROCm run alongside the open-source drivers within the linux kernel ?

Yes. I have been using ROCm and the open source driver successfully for over a year now.