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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.
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.
Also, this is what the average dev thinks of ROCm.
https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server/issues/75
If AMD wanted to get real serious real fast about rapidly improving drivers, could releasing Radeon driver source code under AGPLv3 help get mass development and fixes for drivers, while at the same time due to the license make the code untouchable for nVidia?
Both RadV and RadeonSI (both part of Mesa) are better than their Radeon driver these days. They should just abandon that unnecessary kludge and fully focus on the open-source drivers.
