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From: "David M. Fellows" <dmf@××××××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:57:04
Message-Id: 32614.1630429015@owl.pooh.corner
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl by Peter Humphrey
1 >On Monday, 30 August 2021 16:08:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 >> Hello list,
3 >>
4 >> Does anyone know whether AMD intend to make their navi cards usable with
5 >> opencl under Linux? I have a Radeon Pro W5500, which is a navi 14 card, and
6 >> from what I can see neither rocm-opencl nor amdgpu-pro-opencl can drive it.
7 >>
8 >> Rather spoils the point of upgrading to it.
9 >
10 >AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb
11 >formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with
12 >'unsupported OS'. Not surprising, of course, but is there any way of porting
13 >and archive full of .debs so that it can be used in Gentoo?
14
15 app-arch/deb2targz
16 app-arch/rpm2targz
17 perhaps?
18 And you get to keep all the pieces if the expected APIs do not match the
19 actual APIs. :)
20 DaveF
21
22 >
23 >--
24 >Regards,
25 >Peter.
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >