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Dockerfiles for the various software layers defined in the ROCm software platform
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Do I need to use the proprietary AMD drivers on Ubuntu in order to use ROCM? #115

Closed xeon826 closed 1 year ago

xeon826 commented 1 year ago

The directions I see for installing ROCM on Ubuntu involve doing this

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/5.3/ubuntu/focal/amdgpu-install_5.3.50300-1_all.deb 
sudo apt-get install ./amdgpu-install_5.3.50300-1_all.deb
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm

Won’t this install the proprietary AMD graphics drivers? I’d rather not use them because they’re not as good as their open source counterparts on Linux, if I remember correctly when I installed the proprietary AMD drivers for Ubuntu it involved commands similar to this, does the --usecase=rocm make it so that only ROCM is installed?

In a nutshell, my question is if I’m using a Radeon 5700 XT navi11 GPU on Ubuntu 22.04.3 jammy do I need to use the proprietary AMD graphics drivers in order to use ROCM or can I keep the open source drivers? I see there’s another installation method using the Ubuntu repositories would this work to only install ROCM and not the proprietary drivers?

kentrussell commented 1 year ago

You can use the upstream kernel with the ROCm userspace stack, but you will be missing some compute-specific features like IPC, RDMA, SPM, etc, as well as the latest kernel+firmware updates.

Regardless, if you want to use the stock OS kernel, just pass the "--no-dkms" flag to the amdgpu-install utility.