On: ROCm Device Support Wishlist

[__turbobrew__]

rocm is kind of a joke. Recently I wanted to write some golang code which talks to rocm devices using amd smi. You have to build and install the go amd smi from source, the go amd smi repo has dead links and there is basically no documentation anywhere on how to get this working.

Compare this to nvidia where I just imported the go nvml library and it built the cgo code and automatically links to nvidia-ml.so at runtime.

[magic_at_nodai → __turbobrew__]

Is this the repo you are referring to https://github.com/amd/go_amd_smi ? Would having a prebuilt version there help you ?

[__turbobrew__ → magic_at_nodai]

“ * NOTE: * The GO SMI binding depends on the following libraries:

- E-SMI inband library ("https://github.com/amd/esmi_ib_library") - ROCm SMI library("https://github.com/ROCm/rocm_smi_lib") - AMDSMI library("https://github.com/ROCm/amdsmi") - goamdsmi_shim library ("https://github.com/amd/goamdsmi/goamdsmi_shim")”

First of all this link is dead: https://github.com/amd/goamdsmi/goamdsmi_shim

Second: these dependencies should all be packaged into deb/rpm

Third: there should be a goamdsmi package which has a proper dependency tree. I should be able to do ‘apt-get install goamdsmi’ and it should install everything I need. This is how it works with go-nvml.