Originally posted by Quackdoc
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"and it's just some kind of flag barring it from working"
it is more than a flag ... its the open-source version of ROCm/HIP it include patches for Polaris.
and the distro files from debian/Arch/fedora use this opensource version of ROCm/HIp..
"you realize this just makes it even worse right?"
no you have a deep misunterstanding what open-source drivers mean in reality it means that the official driver is no longer the only option and it gets competition from the opensource people...
its not a flag like you think it is it is the extra patches in the opensource version of ROCm...
"there isn't even any extra work they need to do to make it work"
of course there is extra work they would have to include the opensource-version patches of ROCm in their closed source version.
"aside from validation,"
AMD do not want to invest money to include these open-source-rocm version patches and they also do not want to spend money on validation,
"and they can't be bothered to do that for cards they were selling 4-5 years ago?"
AMD did release the full spec and opensource development guide for this gpu architecture Polaris
everybody can write a ROCm/HIP driver for this ...
amd plain and simple don't need to do this for themself the opensource linux community already did it.
"I really hope this is a joke. cause if not that's just sad..."
no its not a joke today the relevant drivers come from distro packets and the relevant driver development comes from red-hat and valve and so one... no one cares anymore if amd does it or not.
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