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[bridgman]

ROCm is Radeon Open Compute platforM.

[bridgman]

Just to be clear, the HAL was not a "mistake", it was a core part of what DAL/DC is supposed to deliver (a cross-OS / cross-platform package...

[bridgman]

Well *that* seems potentially a lot more interesting than the rest of this thread ...

[bridgman]

You might be taking Dave's comment out of context. I believe his point was that they didn't want vendor-specific HALs / midlayers being added.
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[bridgman]

There should be a snappy retort possible here since most Swiss cheese does not actually have holes... maybe someone else can come up with it....

[bridgman]

I'm not saying that... just that CPU utilization alone is not proper measure for whether or not there is a "CPU bottleneck" - which is a fairly...

[bridgman]

It is pretty much impossible to identify a CPU bottleneck by looking only at the CPU utilization.

A driver+workload involves both CPU and...

[bridgman]

It's not actually "atomic mode-setting for GCN 1.1 and later", it's that the DAL/DC code only supports GCN 1.1 and later period.

[bridgman]

I'm moving this to the top because once this part becomes clear the rest should fall into place. You need to distinguish between stacks (which include...

[bridgman]

There are two newer versions of AMDGPU-PRO released since 17.10. My recollection is that 17.10 did include initial support for RX 550 so 17.10 isn't "wrong"...

[bridgman]

Ahh, OK. I had not heard anything about the HW or microcode being available on Windows but not Linux so that interpretation never occurred to me. Thanks...

[bridgman]

How can a HW <-> OS driver be OS-agnostic ?...

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I was under the impression that 17.2 had enough workarounds to not require Mesa over-rides any more, but have you tried launch Dying Light with something...

[bridgman]

Conformant rarely means bug-free, just "bug-free within the time limits of the people writing the conformance tests", but usually a number of...

[bridgman]

Surprisingly enough radv doesn't change the cost equation that much. The Linux team would still be expected to add radv support for each new HW generation...

[bridgman]

You didn't exactly say I was wrong there, just "your point is not driven by scientific facts" (I never claimed it was) and "It could even...

[bridgman]

On single-threaded benchmarks the fewer-core CPUs frequently beat the more-core CPUs because the cores can turbo up to higher clocks on average without...

[bridgman]

Nothing complicated - the Vulkan team decides our Vulkan strategy, and their preference was to focus on the AMD Vulkan driver rather than having AMD developers...

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The OpenCL component is independent from the radeonsi component (I can't type "driver" any more because the 'v' key stopped working after a...

[bridgman]

Your definition of "sane" may be different from mine. I don't see "going out of business" as an outcome which would suggest sanity...