Hi Étienne, On 2023-08-27 14:21, Étienne Mollier wrote:
Acknowledged, the current state of hip is it's still mostly at ROCm version 5.2.3 and begins to lag far behind. It has accumulated a lot of patches over time, so a big version bump may not be trivial. I think it may be a good idea to begin work on upgrade of the stack in experimental even if ROCm 5.7 is not out yet: I believe that would reduce the delta on 5.7 release, and thus the amount of work at the last minute (and there would also be the question of the availability of llvm 17 in Debian). If there are no objections, then I may proceed to a bump of HIP 5.6 in experimental in the upcoming weeks.
LLVM 17 RC3 is already available in experimental [1] and ROCm 5.7 is also on RC3. Unfortunately, the lower-stack components of ROCm do not publish their sources until the final release [2], but I would suggest we wait-and-see for a couple weeks. It certainly makes sense to stage our updates in experimental, but I suspect it will be less total work to update from ROCm 5.2 to 5.7 than to go from ROCm 5.2 to 5.6 to 5.7.
If you're itching to get back into ROCm before then, might I suggest packaging rocdbgapi [3]? I filed the ITP for that, but now realize that I have overbooked my time. It may be a while before I get to that library.
That said, there's nothing harmful about first updating to ROCm 5.6, if that's what you want to do. If you're volunteering to do the work, then I'm certainly not going to complain about how you do it.
Sincerely, Cory Bloor [1]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/llvm-toolchain-17 [2]: this is something I would like to change [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040516