AMDGPU Southern Islands Support Added To Mesa's DRM Library

[dungeon]

Yes, it has of course... blender CL runs on profile for example

[starshipeleven]

Well profiles control many things, it will not be like if you run full blob package.

The ways of driver profiles are infinite.

The driver profiles's benevolence will fill us of happyness.

Really, OpenCL has driver profiles? Yes/no/dunno?

[illwieckz]

Fortunately AMD is looking to open sourcing the openCL components within the next year-ish

I know AMD is looking to open source the OpenCL component within the next year (they said the same for Vulkan and some people already stopped to wait) but I need OpenCL right now. I'm processing photos with Darktable and people don't want to wait some years to get their photos. So I use the AMDGPU-PRO blob, so I get crashes on other tasks like playing some games to entertain me after hard work.

http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=2960

I tried, I got:

amdgpu_device_initialize: DRM version is 2.45.0 but this driver is only compatible with 3.x.x.

Then a segfault.

Perhaps I'm missing something, I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.1 with linux 4.7.2.

I can get my setup to work (amdgpu-pro OpenGL), I can get my setup to play (amdgpu-all-open OpenGL), I can't get yet my setup to both work and play.

(And if a nVidia-fanboy comes along, and please do not suggest nVidia, I have one of their GPU on another computer and I have some worst problems like not being able to plug an external monitor, so even buggy drivers from AMD works better than nVidia buggy drivers, I need a display after all).

[dungeon]

Well profiles control many things, it will not be like if you run full blob package.

[starshipeleven]

LEGO likely does not work right, as it misses profiles too.

I would say "sort of running" rather that there is "no problem"

Who cares of profiles if he wants to use only the OpenCL part from closed blob?

[dungeon]

Maybe we should introduce third amdgpu-lego driver with bugzilla for that

[dungeon]

LEGO likely does not work right, as it misses profiles too.

I would say "sort of running" rather that there is "no problem"

[Mystro256]

Thank you! Nice hack! This is not what I call “there is no problem” since it needs binary rewriting, so this binary rewriting is just a way to fix problems. ;-)

So, it's just “problem fixable”, and this is already good.

Fortunately AMD is looking to open sourcing the openCL components within the next year-ish

[illwieckz]

There is no problem to use mesa + amdgpu-pro opencl

Thank you! Nice hack! This is not what I call “there is no problem” since it needs binary rewriting, so this binary rewriting is just a way to fix problems. ;-)

So, it's just “problem fixable”, and this is already good.

[Pontostroy]

All I want is Mesa OpenGL + AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL,

There is no problem to use mesa + amdgpu-pro opencl

http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=2960