[Pkg-opencl-devel] ROCm RFP

[Samuel VISCAPI]

Dear all,

Looks like there are already two ROCm related packages in experimental,
courtesy of the "ROCm Team":

https://packages.debian.org/experimental/rocm-smi
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/rocminfo

https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=team%2Brocm-team%40tracker.debian.org

Do you think those ROCm packages will eventually trickle down to Bullseye
+ backports in order to replace mesa-opencl-icd and libclc-amdgcn ?

Best regards,

Samuel

> 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
>
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