AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"

After recently announcing they'd be working to get out Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation and open-source code, AMD said they would be working to open-source more of their software stack and hardware documentation. AMD repeated those calls over the weekend...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-2024

[fong38]

Nice!

[timofonic]

Make ROCm to not suck and GPU compute compete with Nvidia offerings in terms of performance and software support, plus make support for GPU compute on all consumer GPUs/APUs. Thst will require considerable investment and hiring.

They are on a good path, but it's not enough and slow pacing to the goal. NVIDIA is Goliath.

Anyway, good news!

[Panix]

Make ROCm to not suck and GPU compute compete with Nvidia offerings in terms of performance and software support, plus make support for GPU compute on all consumer GPUs/APUs. Thst will require considerable investment and hiring.

They are on a good path, but it's not enough and slow pacing to the goal. NVIDIA is Goliath.

Anyway, good news!

AMD doesn't care about any of that stuff. They open source some part of their stack because they can't compete and they know a part of the community will thump their chest promoting AMD. They only care about gaming and AI. In AI, they're not very competitive in that either since they're incompetent in the gpu division.

[WileEPyote]

Still hoping for them to open source their storage drivers too. Come on open source AMDRAID!

[uid313]

I think Intel and AMD should cooperate on the graphics and GPGPU stack. They really need to join forces because they're both threatened by Nvidia.

[emansom]

Still hoping for them to open source their storage drivers too. Come on open source AMDRAID!

Not much there that can't be achieved via either LVM cache, bcache, ZFS and/or LVM-VDO.

[skeevy420]

It'd be nice if they'd tweak the licensing for things like AOCC so distributions can package them in their repositories.

[ms178]

I hope this means also more work for RDNA2?! As these cards use MES on Windows, it would be nice to profit from all the forthcoming work on Linux, too. This item got added to my whish list at least.

[qarium]

AMD doesn't care about any of that stuff. They open source some part of their stack because they can't compete and they know a part of the community will thump their chest promoting AMD. They only care about gaming and AI. In AI, they're not very competitive in that either since they're incompetent in the gpu division.

how exactly would you fight the uphill battle against nvidia ? i am pretty sure you do not know better you maybe just would say to just be Nvidia because nvidia does everything right.

but i have news for you AMD can not be Nvidia and they have to fight the uphill battle

so what is wrong with the strategy of being more open than Nvidia ?