Hi,

Am Fr 23 Jun 2017 16:44:33 CEST
schrieb Mark Heieis <[email protected]>:

> >> Am 23.06.2017 um 17:01 schrieb Mark Heieis:  
> >>> To get AMD opencl on newer cards in Fedora 25, download current
> >>> CentOS/RHEL amdgpu pro driver (17.10.xxxx).
> >>>
> >>> Unpack it and then under root run ./amggpu-pro-install --compute,
> >>> which just installs opencl support  
> >> This is as simple as it should be!  
> > Sorry, no... I'm glad it works for you, but this is a hack that
> > might break with the next update. It's a major advantage that the
> > NVidia driver is available for a number of distributions, including
> > Ubuntu and Debian...  
> I fail to see the problem and why it's a "no" and a "hack", as it is 
> just installing support libs as far as I can tell. It's been working
> for me (RX480) since amdgpu-pro16.x using out-of-the-box Fedora 25.
> Please explain how it would break, I'd like to understand. Worst
> case, you just have to rerun  ./amggpu-pro-install --compute

It's not "as simple as it should be", since you are generally using
Fedora package management to keep track of installed software, and you
have to work around that here and install stuff by hand to get OpenCL
on AMD, because of lacking support. And it's a "hack" since you are
using part of a package built for RedHat. This may work in the current
combination of RH version and Fedora version, but it is a matter of
luck, not a matter of design. With the next change in either
distribution the dice may fall another way. I wouldn't want to spend a
couple hundred euros on that basis. 

But as I said, I'm glad it works for you.

Cheers
Michael
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