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ROCm 6.2

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

The latest ROCm release in sync with AMD's latest upstream release. Builds on the math libraries released in F40 to also include packages to run AI workloads. Has been integrated with Fedora's PyTorch.

Owner

Name: Tom Rix
Email: trix@redhat.com

Name: Jeremy Newton
Email: Jeremy.Newton@amd.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 41
Last updated: 2024-10-14
Announced
Discussion thread
FESCo issue: #3256
Tracker bug: #2305771
Release notes tracker: #116

Detailed Description

ROCm 6.2 is the latest iteration of AMD's compute libraries that work with the linux kernel to allow users to run compute workloads on their GPU's. As many GPU's as possible are enabled so open acceleration is available and easy for to as wide an audience as possible.

ROCm 6.2 has not been released yet, but upstream has confirmed it will happen long before Fedora 41 code freeze.

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

By providing system level acceleration, the challenges for developers to sync out of tree kernel drivers with complicated software stacks is removed. Developers can focus on solving their problems, not the problems of the getting hardware acceleration working.

Moving to ROCm 6.2 means newer features and bug fixes. It also means moving to LLVM 18, which includes bugfixes, new hardware support, and reduces package maintenance of using an older LLVM package.

Scope

Proposal owners: ROCm Packagers Sig has to update the current set from 6.1.2 to 6.2.0

Other developers: Fedora tools has to release compat packages for llvm18 because ROCm 6.2 is not compatible with llvm19 which is slated for inclusion with F41 (this is already planned and on their schedule). The ROCm upstreams need to finalize the 6.2 release which is expected prior to F41's release

Release engineering: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: "Innovation & Leadership in Technology: We integrate programming language stack ecosystems" by including the latest release of the ROCm ecosystem, Fedora is better enabling heterogeneous computation and supporting the latest hardware for ROCm.

Upgrade/compatibility impact

There should be no backwards incompatible changes for this upgrade, it is a minor release.

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? N

How To Test

AMD GPU hardware is needed. Most of the ROCm packages have option test subpackages which need to be built locally for a single specific AMD shader family (e.g gfx1100). These will be built and run.

User Experience

Dependencies

Contingency Plan

The current ROCm set 6.1.2 has all of the current packages expected in 6.2 llvm17 will be maintained by the ROCm packagers sig (Tom Rix)

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

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 == Detailed Description ==
 <!-- Expand on the summary, if appropriate.  A couple sentences suffices to explain the goal, but the more details you can provide the better. -->
 ROCm 6.2 is the latest iteration of AMD's compute libraries that work with the linux kernel to allow users to run compute workloads on their GPU's.  As many GPU's as possible are enabled so open acceleration is available and easy for to as wide an audience as possible.
+ROCm 6.2 has not been released yet, but upstream has confirmed it will happen long before Fedora 41 code freeze.
 == Feedback ==
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 == Benefit to Fedora ==
 By providing system level acceleration, the challenges for developers to sync out of tree kernel drivers with complicated software stacks is removed.  Developers can focus on solving their problems, not the problems of the getting hardware acceleration working.
+Moving to ROCm 6.2 means newer features and bug fixes. It also means moving to LLVM 18, which includes bugfixes, new hardware support, and reduces package maintenance of using an older LLVM package.
 <!-- What is the benefit to the distribution?  Will the software we generate be improved? How will the process of creating Fedora releases be improved?
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 == Scope ==
-* Proposal owners:
+* Proposal owners: ROCm Packagers Sig has to update the current set from 6.1.2 to 6.2.0
-Fedora tools has to release compat llvm18 has to be available because ROCm 6.2 uses this compiler
-AMD has to finalize the release of 6.2
-ROCm Packagers Sig has to update the current set from 6.1.2 to 6.2.0
 <!-- What work do the feature owners have to accomplish to complete the feature in time for release?  Is it a large change affecting many parts of the distribution or is it a very isolated change? What are those changes?-->
+* Other developers: <!-- REQUIRED FOR SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES --> Fedora tools has to release compat packages for llvm18 because ROCm 6.2 is not compatible with llvm19 which is slated for inclusion with F41 (this is already planned and on their schedule). The ROCm upstreams need to finalize the 6.2 release which is expected prior to F41's release
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 <!-- What work do other developers have to accomplish to complete the feature in time for release?  Is it a large change affecting many parts of the distribution or is it a very isolated change? What are those changes?-->
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-* Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:
+* Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: "Innovation & Leadership in Technology: We integrate programming language stack ecosystems" by including the latest release of the ROCm ecosystem, Fedora is better enabling heterogeneous computation and supporting the latest hardware for ROCm.
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+There should be no backwards incompatible changes for this upgrade, it is a minor release.
 == Early Testing (Optional) ==
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-Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? Y/N <!-- Optional Step for System-Wide Changes only -->
+Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? N <!-- Optional Step for System-Wide Changes only -->
 == How To Test ==
 AMD GPU hardware is needed.
-Most of the ROCm packages have option test subpackages, these will be built and run.
+Most of the ROCm packages have option test subpackages which need to be built locally for a single specific AMD shader family (e.g `gfx1100`). These will be built and run.
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