Fedora 41 Looks To Ship Upcoming AMD ROCm 6.2 For Latest AI Capabilities

[contik32]

I used the ones from AMDs repo to get the most recent ones. TBH I didn't try the integrated ones. Afair I used on Debian stable.

It would interesting to see how big is the delta between the packages from the AMD repo and the ones from Debian repo.

Also, did you install the dkms kernel module or just user space libraries? And what GPU hardware did you use, if this is not a secret?

[KDE_FOREVER]

The sad thing is that in the end it will all be for naught.

As many of you know, I have positions in NVIDIA and am counting on them continuing to generate revenue and grow.

Having said that, I fully expect that eventually someone will come out with an discrete NPU that is many times faster than ROCm on AMD and CUDA on NVIDIA with significantly lower power consumption and effectively kill the AI on GPU craze that is fueling the AI stock surge that has been driving the tech sector gains.

Basically what happened with cryptomining only with AI.



If AMD was smart, a big IF in my opinion, they would be working on bringing such a device to data centers, because they are not going to out CUDA NVIDIA with ROCm.

you have positions only in local garbage cans where you collect bottles because your trolling for masters in redmond does not earn you enough for the rent

[oleid]

It would interesting to see how big is the delta between the packages from the AMD repo and the ones from Debian repo.

It would seem that debian stable has version 5 of rocm. Hence, I need a newer version to support my card.
I just removed everything and now tried again cleanly. I realized my previous installation was not clean, as I installed the packages manually one-by-one instead of using a meta package.

Also, I used jammy=ubuntu-22.04 packages, not focal=ubuntu-20.04.
In essence, I used this package here to get the repo.

There is, however, a dependeny, which is not available. Namely libpython3.10, which is required by rocm-gdm.
I created a fake package using equivs. The next step was convincing APT to use the packages from the rocm repo, not the internal repo (since the package versions in the rocm repo are smaller ). Thus, I needed an override file:

/etc/apt/preferences.d/99rocm
-----
Package: rocminfo
Pin: release a=jammy
Pin-Priority: 990

Package: rocm-device-libs
Pin: release a=jammy
Pin-Priority: 990

Package: rocm-cmake
Pin: release a=jammy
Pin-Priority: 990

Package: hipcc
Pin: release a=jammy
Pin-Priority: 990

That appears to do the trick. After that I can simply run apt install rocm.

Also, did you install the dkms kernel module or just user space libraries?

Apparently, the dkms module is currently in use (although I didn't recall installing it).
Given the debian stable kernel is quite old, it might be required - I'm not sure.

And what GPU hardware did you use, if this is not a secret?

Not a secret. I got hands on a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (due to its 24 GiB VRAM).