There is hope at least. Currently ROCm is pretty terrible.

  • martini1992@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If they could just help big distros package binaries that’d be great. I was unable to use their handy dandy installer to install on Debian 11 a couple of months ago, been meaning to try again now Debian 12 is available.

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      1 year ago

      I believe Debian has official distro packages now. Arch, gentoo and NixOS certainly do, but they’re often a release or two behind. AMD only provides packages for the big corporate distros (Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE), which I guess is fine. The odd one out is Fedora. There are official distro packages, but only for rocm-opencl, not for the whole stack. But ROCm is open source, so in the spirit of open source software, I believe distros should handle packaging duties. Only the distro maintainers know how they want to to compile, distribute and package the stack.