Bug#1001712: RFP: rocm-all -- AMD Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) - A collection of utilities for GPGPU (compute) on AMD GPUs.

[Maxime Chambonnet <maxzor@maxzor.eu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name    : rocm-all
  Version         : 4.5.2
  Upstream Author : amd.com
* URL             : https://rocmdocs.amd.com/
* License         : UIUC
  Programming Lang: C, C++, DLSs
  Description     : AMD Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) - A collection of utilities
for GPGPU (hybrid computing).

AMD ROCm is the current tentative at a unified platform for hybrid CPU/GPU
computing. It supersedes the PAL compute stack. It is as essential as any
package in a distribution if not more, given how the other GPU manufacturer
behaves with regards to FLOSS.

This RFP is a porte-manteau request for a package for each free module of the
stack. (See ROCm doc, Arch github repo below, for detail.)

Currently AMD packages ROCm themselves here : https://repo.radeon.com/rocm .
They are mostly left unchecked, Arch packagers do the job :
https://github.com/rocm-arch/rocm-arch . The privileged way of installing ROCm
for Debian-based-distro users today is to use the AMD installer, often
referred-to as AMDGPU-PRO. This latter is a bundle which includes proprietary
bits.

In a few months, Blender will release 3.1 with support for rendering in Cycles
on Linux, and will be dependent on HIP, one of ROCm sub-packages.

BR, Maxime Chambonnet