Il 24/06/2017 15:02, Michael Below ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> Am Fr 23 Jun 2017 16:44:33 CEST
> schrieb Mark Heieis <mhei...@alois.ca>:
>
>>>> 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.
>
Indeed as a Fedora packager I would never use such "hack around"s, but I
am glad that it works for him
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