ROCm in-box support at Computex 2025
Hi folks,
At Computex 2025, AMD announced its intentions to 'in-box' the ROCm
stack by integrating it into a number of Linux distributions, including
Fedora, EPEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu [1]. While Debian is not on this list, I
expect that the work done for Ubuntu will be quite beneficial for the
Debian effort. The packaging work for ROCm in-box on Ubuntu builds upon
the packaging work done for ROCm in-box on Debian, and will feed back
into Debian as well.
Obviously, in places where Debian and Ubuntu policies or design opinions
differ, there may be differences between the Debian and Ubuntu packages.
However, we are hoping to minimize those differences. The primary focus
of these efforts over the upcoming months will be on updating the ROCm
stack to enable newer AMD GPU hardware (RDNA 3.5 / RDNA 4) and
completing the pytorch-rocm packaging.
I'm sure everyone's aware that more resources are required to bridge the
gap from where we are to where we need to be. That's still a
work-in-progress, but I'll follow up once I have details to share.
Sincerely,
Cory Bloor
[1]: https://youtu.be/n9ERjuXXJ_0?t=1h2m
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