Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver

Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alibaba-AMDGPU-Suspend-Resume

[pokeballs]

Why is AMD software support so terrible?

[mdedetrich]

Hate to be that guy, but all of these bugs would indeed be impossible in Rust.

[wdb974]

That's a win for the open source model!

[Nth_man]

You can't fix bad programmers with compilers; Java tried...

[avis]

Why is AMD software support so terrible?

That's not what you'll hear from Open Source fans, "Linux AMD GPU drivers are the best and NVIDIA sucks!"

Never mind their bug tracker with hundreds of unresolved bugs, comments like "We don't have the HW, please debug/bisect it yourself", or basically four (!) people working on drivers.

That's a win for the open source model!

You've forgotten to add "Sarcasm".

[cen1]

You have people with no issues whatsoever (like me) and you have people with issues. Based on this forum, it seems to me Nvidia is generally more problematic these days.

[crowen]

That's not what you'll hear from Open Source fans, "Linux AMD GPU drivers are the best and NVIDIA sucks!"

Never mind their bug tracker with hundreds of unresolved bugs, comments like "We don't have the HW, please debug/bisect it yourself", or basically four (!) people working on drivers.



You've forgotten to add "Sarcasm".

At least there is a proper bugtracker and you can bisect code yourself. Compare to NVIDIA.

[Daktyl198]

That's not what you'll hear from Open Source fans, "Linux AMD GPU drivers are the best and NVIDIA sucks!"

Never mind their bug tracker with hundreds of unresolved bugs, comments like "We don't have the HW, please debug/bisect it yourself", or basically four (!) people working on drivers.
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The truly sad part is that AMD driver on Linux are lightyears better than AMD drivers on Windows. AMD just does not invest into their software team at all, and it bites them in the ass every time but they never learn. Fake it 'till you make it I guess.

[cb88]

Hate to be that guy, but all of these bugs would indeed be impossible in Rust.

Not impossible but certainly not likely to occur... You'd almost have to intentionally write bad code to do so in Rust. That said if I had to pick Id rather they had a longer support cycle.... and acutally proper implementations of things like flash attention for any relevant GPUS instead of just the latest and greatest.

ROCm still has a lot of problems with yes... it works, but its slow as heck or is broken etc... at least on older GPUs that are still relevant.