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[bridgman]

You need 4.18 or newer upstream kernel; 4.19 if you have a Vega. Also need ROCm 1.9 or newer.

What hardware do you have ?...

[bridgman]

It's pretty simple... two main reasons:

1. Writing a control panel is a waste of time until the underlying driver code has all the control...

[bridgman]

... or close to a large body of deep water....

[bridgman]

OMG, now I see the master plan. One of the problems with living in your vehicle is finding a place to park at night, but with all the work going into...

[bridgman]

You don't need proprietary drivers - AMD open source drivers are available both upstream and packaged with DKMS/KCL "so that they are independent...

[bridgman]

Yep - I haven't looked at PlaidML specifically but I expect we are going to have to go through the same kind of transition we did with graphics drivers......

[bridgman]

Don't know if it helps, but it more recently went from place names to stars ...

[bridgman]

https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index5h2

Need to update it for more recent products but user ID seems to have stopped working......

[bridgman]

Yep... but I don't think what we are saying is incompatible... once a project has started with a particular CLA it's not likely to change... but my impression...

[bridgman]

I don't think you can call it a rebrand when it's announced at around the same time as the thing you claim we are rebranding ...

[bridgman]

Not sure that is true... some CLA's involve copyright assignment but the trend is towards having the contributor maintain copyright but grant the project...

[bridgman]

Yeah, I hate the idea of having binaries in different places depending on who builds them. If everyone thinks that putting our AMD-built binaries in /usr/local...

[bridgman]

Sure, but the two are not interchangeable. The distro install scripts were written primarily for workstation drivers which are not a candidate for distro...

[bridgman]

I thought the general rule was that packages built by the system administrator (or distro packager ?) usually went in /usr/local while binaries pre-built...

[bridgman]

ROCm is 100% open as far as I know. Distros were not able to start integrating ROCm until recently because we had not finished upstreaming the kernel...