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Re:What Is AMD ROCm? by blihp on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:09PM (#29347407)
Is there some reason AMD seems uninterested (at best) in supporting an open source compute stack? Not everyone is running one of the distros supported by ROCm which will discourage more than a few users.
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Re:What Is AMD ROCm? by rasz on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:00AM (#29347590)
AMD is not a software company. They barely support their current products. Everything is slow and full of bugs. Afaik they had a thing where they fired GPU driver developers before deciding to rewrite everything from scratch - losing expertise and institutional knowledge, new ones were slower for a long timer. They even managed to fuck up AMD Platform !Security! Processor (PSP) chipset driver allowing attackers dumping of random memory pages.
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Re:What Is AMD ROCm? by Gigachad on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:34PM (#29347506)
AMD isn't even interested in supporting their best selling cards with ROCm. The whole thing seems to be illogical and against their own interests.
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