[Pkg-opencl-devel] ROCm RFP

[Maxime Chambonnet]

Blame it on my poor knowledge of Debian, and the siloed internal search 
engine... I started today looking seriously into packaging ROCm, and 
after 8 hours discovered that there is a dedicated team, slightly hidden 
under the debian-ai mailing list : https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team .

The team have at least pushed one component of ROCm into stable already :
https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/roct-thunk-interface. (old 
version, 3.7, current is 4.5, 5 announced)

A conversation between an AMD engineer and the Debian ROCm team started 
here : https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/2021/03/msg00009.html

> Would it be useful to place these packages under the umbrella of
>   Maintainer: Debian OpenCL Maintainers 
> <pkg-opencl-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> There is more in ROCm than just OpenCL, but I don't know a better 
> fitting team ... 

I have no clue how this could be better setup, between teams that deal 
with very similar issues.

There was no RFP nor ITP for the overall rocm, there is one now.
Guess I will play catch up, and see if I can help!

BR, Maxime