On 01/13/2019 03:32 AM, Felix Schwarz wrote: > > Am 10.01.19 um 03:28 schrieb Tom Stellard: >> hsakmt and the rocm-runtime are currently packaged in Fedora, but aren't >> up-to-date with upstream. I've wanted to package hip as well, but I've >> been waiting for hip to drop the hcc dependency since it is so hard to >> package. > > Do you know when this is supposed to happen? Any public comments from AMD on > that issue? >
I'm not really sure, but I've started to look again at packaging hcc. > Besides hcc might come handy in some cases. Would you mind sharing some > information why hcc is hard to package? The main issues are: - Lots of hard-coded paths in the source to /opt/hsa - Bundles its own llvm, clang, and lld. -Tom > > (Also I recently read that AMD is interested in shipping the ROCm stack in > more distros as the mainline kernel comes with the necessary bits. Maybe they > would be willing to work with Fedora make hcc easier to package?) > > Generally I'd like to see ROCm support in Fedora as I think it really fits > Fedora's mission pretty well: Fedora ships very recent software so that should > be fine and in my experience very few machine learning users looking for > long-term stability. Easy installation and ability to debug issues are more > important. > > Also "Machine Learning with Free Software" would make nice Fedora feature > name :-) > > Felix > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
