On 2018-05-02 12:46, frieder wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2018, 18:49 -0400 schrieb Šarūnas:
> 
>>>> 
>>>> If you can get kernel 4.11–4.13 on any of these Debian, then
>>>> you can use open source ROCm OpenCL
>>>> (github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm). amdgpu itself is already
>>>> in the Linux kernel.
>>>> 
>>> Sounds good... altough, Debian based on Kernel 3.16 and 4.9. 
>>> Backport Kernels from 4.13 are not available for X86/amd64
>>> architecture.
>> 
>> Sounds very stable indeed :)
>> 
>> I had to go back to 4.13 (from 4.17) in order to be able to use
>> ROCm…
>> 
> Seems best option is to try Ubuntu 16.04. It is LTS, it uses Kernel
> 4.13 [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#Versionstabelle] and AMD
> offers a proprietary driver for this release. 
> [https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx]

The new AMDGPU-PRO 18.10.x and its OpenCL work perfectly well with
Ubuntu 18.04, provided OS uses kernel 4.13 (which is very easy to do).

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Šarūnas Burdulis
math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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