ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says
The Debian ROCm Team [1] has made quite a bit of progress in getting the ROCm stack into the official Archive.<p>Most components are already packaged, the next big target is adding support to the PyTorch package.<p>Many of the packages are older versions; this is because getting broad coverage was prioritized. The other next big target that is currently being worked on is getting full ROCm 5.7 support.<p>I fully expect Debian 13 (trixie) to come with full ROCm support out-of-the-box, and as a consequence, also derivatives to have support (Ubuntu above all). In fact, there will almost certainly be backports of ROCm 5.7 to Debian 12 (bookworm) within the next few months, so one will be able to just<p><pre><code>  $ sudo apt-get install pytorch-rocm
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One current obstacle is infrastructure: the Debian build and CI infrastructures (both hardware and software) were not designed with GPUs in mind. This is also being worked on.<p>Edit: forgot to say that the CI infra that the Team is setting up here tests all of these packages on consumer cards, too. So while there may not be <i>official</i> support for most of these, upstream tests passing on the cards within the infra should be a good indication for <i>practical</i> support.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salsa.debian.org&#x2F;rocm-team&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salsa.debian.org&#x2F;rocm-team&#x2F;</a>