Re: GPU programming?

From: Thierry Thomas <thierry_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:44:15 UTC
Le lun.  5 févr. 24 à 12:17:57 +0100, Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
 écrivait :

> > ROCm: No idea. I have not seen any report about it working or even
> > being tried. But there was at least some discussion about it:
> >     https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/138
> >     https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1913
> 
> AFAIU (never owned an AMD GPU):
> - ROCm requires amdkfd.ko which drm-kmod doesn't provide since
>   https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/commit/a381f46adf8b
> - ROCm has poor *consumer* GPU support thus unattractive for
>   volunteers/community to spend time porting

I just read that it is now possible to run CUDA code on Radeon:

AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now
Open-Source
<https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-cuda-zluda>

This should make it interesting!
-- 
Th. Thomas.