ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime VS Tasker

Its not that they're supporting buggy code, they just downgraded the quality of their implementation significantly. They made the compiler a lot worse when they swapped to rocm

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime/iss... is the tracking issue for it filed a year ago, which appears to be wontfix largely because its a lot of work

OpenCL still unfortunately supports quite a few things that vulkan doesn't, which makes swapping away very difficult for some use cases

There's https://docs.amd.com/bundle/ROCm-Installation_FAQ/page/Frequently_Asked_Questions.html which leads to a page which doesn't list any gpus that I can see, there's https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.html which lists "RDNA2" , there's https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1698 which is from last year and mentions changing an env for the RX 6600 XT (navi 23) . Not a lot is mentioned in the readme of https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime .

$ dnf info rocm-opencl Installed Packages Name : rocm-opencl Version : 5.4.3 Release : 2.fc38 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 1.7 M Source : rocm-opencl-5.4.3-2.fc38.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : updates Summary : ROCm OpenCL Runtime URL : https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime License : MIT Description : ROCm OpenCL language runtime. : Supports offline and in-process/in-memory compilation.

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Eg this bug about shared cl/gl textures with mipmaps being broken has now breached its first birthday, without even acknowledgement - basic cl/gl functionality here. This bug took a year for a fix to make its way into a public driver. And this fairly performance critical bug is just "wontfix", and also a significant downgrade from their old driver stack

Its definitely workable if you're willing to put in the effort (except for things that are straight up broken in some cases, like device side enqueue), but there are some issues that require.. fairly major workarounds

Their implementation is here: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime

After a lot of moderately annoyed testing, I discovered that the AMD OpenCL implementation is.. rather dumb. If any two kernels share any arguments arguments, it inserts a command barrier between the two, hard-stalling the GPU. After filing a bug, it turns out this is wontfix as well, which is doubly bad. There's no set of flags in OpenCL that you can use to fix this either

What's particularly bizarre, is that with one bug report I filed, they claim to have fixed it internally in april, but.. no public driver has ever been released with the fix. For 7 months? Which is just a bizarre software development process

I almost exclusively use C++ for my projects. Especially modern C++. When it makes sense(especially for dev tools), I use Python since for those I'm not so worried about distribution and long-term robustness.

Anyway here they are:

Qt desktop app written in C++:https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker

Simple GPIO front-end for linux GPIO driver(could definitely use some improvement) written in C++ and uses boost:https://github.com/thebigG/simple_gpio

WebApp I JUST started working on(This will be a frontend for a YOCTO/FPGA project I'm working on; guitar pedals), and yes it uses good old C++ and runs on the browser:

https://github.com/thebigG/wPedals

And while I'm at it, might as well mention my custom plugins for Godot Game Engine(C++):https://github.com/thebigG/godot-3.x-modules

I have found that C++ is the best compromise for me between performance and elegance ifI do say so myself.

That's really cool that you have it in one of the official repos! Sadly I'm an Ubuntu user myself so it might not be that straightforward to get as far as I know. Though I was able to easily build it from source. Some of these can come down to personal preference, but I'm a big fan of AppImages. If you would like to see an example of a Qt application may be turned into an AppImage. I have an example here: https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker/blob/main/.github/workflows/linux_build.yaml

Here's an example of me using this on GitHub Actions:https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker/blob/win_compile/.github/workflows/ci.yaml

https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker

It's an app that allows you to accurately track your commitments via hardware hooks(audio, mouse and keyboard). The UI can definitely use some work, but figured some people mind find as useful as I do.

Shameless plug:https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker/blob/main/Tasker/build_AppImage.py

Been working on this little project for a bit now:https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker

Tasker - Create Commitments and track your progress through hardware hooks(Mic, Keyboard, Mouse)

https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker