Radeon Vulkan Driver Added To Mesa, Fresh Radeon Vulkan vs. OpenGL Benchmarks + AMDGPU-PRO

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I'll give that a shot

Considering that adding the PPA now sandbags CodeXL from AMD I think we have a much longer way to go so I'll have to twiddle my thumbs w/o PPA and work with a gimp'd card for now.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Another option would be to run the -PRO OpenCL runtime with the open source stack. A number of people seem to be doing this today - let me know if you have trouble finding info and I'll try to dig some up.

I'll give that a shot

[Marc Driftmeyer]

You can use the Padoka and Oibaf ppas in Debiab testing, uhbuntu xenial is based on that.

Gallium Nine uses faster api than OpenGL for Dx9:
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive...

PPAs with Debian, use case B:
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/how-to...

Padoka PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-d...

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everything works, except Blender. It crashes with the following:

# Blender 2.78 (sub 0), Commit date: 2016-09-26 12:42, Hash 4bb1e22

# backtrace
/usr/lib/blender/blender(BLI_system_backtrace+0x1d) [0x1b6269d]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x11bc81e]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x33040) [0x7fca190b3040]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-4.0.so.1(_ZN4llvm2cl6Option9setArgStrENS_9StringRefE+0xc5) [0x7fc9fca3d705]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x54eb5b) [0x7fc9e3bceb5b]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM-3.8.so.1(+0x54ed98) [0x7fc9e3bced98]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf5da) [0x7fca1ad6f5da]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf6eb) [0x7fca1ad6f6eb]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0x13c68) [0x7fca1ad73c68]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf484) [0x7fca1ad6f484]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0x13419) [0x7fca1ad73419]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2(+0xee9) [0x7fca19420ee9]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf484) [0x7fca1ad6f484]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2(+0x1521) [0x7fca19421521]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2(dlopen+0x32) [0x7fca19420f82]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so.1(+0x4212) [0x7fc9ef88c212]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so.1(+0x4360) [0x7fc9ef88c360]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so.1(+0x497a) [0x7fc9ef88c97a]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so.1(clGetPlatformIDs+0xc3) [0x7fc9ef88d163]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x20fd2b4]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(_ZN3ccl18device_opencl_infoERNS_6vectorINS_10DeviceInfoENS_16GuardedAllocatorIS1_EEEE+0x39) [0x20ffdb9]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(_ZN3ccl6Device17available_devicesEv+0x99) [0x20e8549]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x1ff6985]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x1ade8b8]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(RNA_property_enum_items_ex+0xf9) [0x19c7619]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(RNA_property_enum_items+0x15) [0x19c7645]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(RNA_property_enum_identifier+0x26) [0x19c7bc6]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x15a9cdb]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(pyrna_prop_to_py+0x100) [0x15b1d40]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x15b2090]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x31f8) [0x2be0238]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(PyEval_EvalFrameEx+0x7cb1) [0x2be4cf1]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x2be67d2]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(PyEval_EvalCodeEx+0x48) [0x2be68d8]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x2b5319f]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(PyObject_Call+0x5a) [0x2b29d5a]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x15b13aa]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x1ac9a3c]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(ED_region_panels+0x27f) [0x1496a0f]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x11e9088]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(ED_region_do_draw+0xa16) [0x1495be6]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x11c0a64]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(wm_draw_update+0x592) [0x11c1b92]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(WM_main+0x28) [0x11bd438]
/usr/lib/blender/blender(main+0x3b3) [0x11620c3]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1) [0x7fca190a02b1]
/usr/lib/blender/blender() [0x11b96c9]

[Marc Driftmeyer]

thanks you two. I sure hope we see some progress with the stack once 4.9 is sanctioned and amd is a bit more solvent to extend more resources on it. I really want to have the opencl for blender and much more to process heavy scenes. I won't even touch cfa/fea until that happens.

cfa- > cfd.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Thanks you two. I sure hope we see some progress with the stack once 4.9 is sanctioned and AMD is a bit more solvent to extend more resources on it. I really want to have the OpenCL for Blender and much more to process heavy scenes. I won't even touch CFA/FEA until that happens.

[dungeon]

They dropped Catalyst for post Jessie and everything in the Ubuntu debs works, but the one that really matters: DKMS. I'll have to dig into what's causing it.

It is that kernel compatability again, probably work best if you match Ubuntu or SteamOS kernels... so 4.1 or 4.4, both are latest longterm kernels on kernel.org.

Actually steamos amdgpu-pro seems just for gaming, it does not have opencl... probably best try is if you use 4.4 kernel with official amdgpu-pro i guess

[bridgman]

Another option would be to run the -PRO OpenCL runtime with the open source stack. A number of people seem to be doing this today - let me know if you have trouble finding info and I'll try to dig some up.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I guess there is plenty of time until Debian 9 will became stable... so, spring next year maybe i guess AMD will improve that new KCL due to that time

They dropped Catalyst for post Jessie and everything in the Ubuntu debs works, but the one that really matters: DKMS. I'll have to dig into what's causing it.

[dungeon]

Does anyone have an ETA on when this driver stack is released for Debian so I can actually utilize my RX 480 and not with the asinine Gallium driver currently at 0.4 that is useless with Blender or any other OpenCL work?

I guess there is plenty of time until Debian 9 will became stable... so, spring next year maybe i guess AMD will improve that new KCL due to that time

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Does anyone have an ETA on when this driver stack is released for Debian so I can actually utilize my RX 480 and not with the asinine Gallium driver currently at 0.4 that is useless with Blender or any other OpenCL work?