AMD Releases Radeon ROCm 1.5

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Releases Radeon ROCm 1.5

ROCm 1.5 is now available from the Radeon Open Compute effort...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ROCm-1.5-Released

[darkbasic]

Please make it fully open source.

[bridgman]

It is fully open source other than OpenCL AFAIK, and we are continuing to work on opening up OpenCL.

Is there something else closed-source which I missed ?

[ernstp]

It's now a 4.9 kernel: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute...tree/roc-1.5.0

[nevion]

It is fully open source other than OpenCL AFAIK, and we are continuing to work on opening up OpenCL.

Is there something else closed-source which I missed ?

bridgman Why does it take so long to open up OpenCL? I'm not holding hot pokers here but this step really is taking longer than I hoped so I'm hoping you can inform us as to why. Also, what's the status on axing the closed source hsail component? My google-fu wasn't strong enough to find the current situation and I'm not really sure where to find a "changelog" other than looking through the distributed commit histories... which I also tried and always ends as a time sink.

[darkbasic]

It is fully open source other than OpenCL AFAIK

Which unfortunately is one of the most important pieces for the end user. Any ETA for OpenCL?

[dungeon]

Most boring thing i read on Phoronix is continuous asking AMD to opensource something every another day

[darkbasic]

Most boring thing i read on Phoronix is continuous asking AMD to opensource something every another day

It's simply full of peoples wanting to use their hardware. By the way their binaries are almost impossible to use unless you use distribution X at version Y where Y << Z (current version).

[juno]

Will ROCm eventually be usable with an upstream Kernel?
If it's true what bridgman said (all components are free software), there is no reason to not push everything in amdkfd upstream?


edit:

It is fully open source other than OpenCL AFAIK, and we are continuing to work on opening up OpenCL.

Is there something else closed-source which I missed ?

Maybe he was referring to that:

Closed source components

The ROCm platform relies on a few closed source components to provide legacy functionality like HSAIL finalization and debugging/profiling support. These components are only available through the ROCm repositories, and will either be deprecated or become open source components in the future. These components are made available in the following packages:

• hsa-ext-rocr-dev

[dungeon]

It's simply full of peoples wanting to use their hardware. By the way their binaries are almost impossible to use unless you use distribution X at version Y where Y << Z (current version).

So you are actually not interested in opensourcing it? I guess you will be fine with all blobs if it swim on Gentoo well