AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Hardware Documentation

Re:AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Har... by sylware on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:48AM (#39917434)

Hardware programming manual incomplete? We would not have mesa neither the linux kernel modules without a complete with erratas hardware programming manual.

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Re:AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Har... by hackernudes on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:53AM (#39917503)

AMD employs people to write the open source drivers. They have access to internal resources. I think it is possible that the public docs are incomplete.

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Re:AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Har... by sylware on Friday April 05, 2024 @08:20AM (#39941494)

Code does not replace the hardware programming manual with up-to-date erratas. If this is the case, hopefully AMD is not hypocrit on that matter, namely releasing on purpose outdated or incomplete hardware programming manual/erratas to force people to use their code (which could be very very bad, look at that c++ abomination which is libaddr, which should be plain and simple C99).

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