Community feedback has pointed out a number of confusing,
oudated, or missing sections in our ROCm README file. For example,
we do not describe what our ROCm package structure is, or how the
packages and meta-packages fit together. This can make it confusing
for users who do not want to just install rocm-dkms and move on.
Our repo manifest (default.xml) is severely out of date. It is
missing almost all of the current ROCm projects, and it always
pulls from the main development branch. This means we do not have
a pinned manifest that allows you to pull the code from a
particular ROCm reelease. Manifest updated, and the section of the
README discussing it is majorly overhauled (including links for
information/scripts about building the code after downloading it).
Rather than continually grow our version history in the main
README page, this splits off old version information into its own
file.
* Updated doc on OS support
This commit specifies the ROCm recommended Ubuntu kernel versions.
And advise users to remove ROCm packages if need to upgrade the CentOS versions. There are known DKMS limitations can cause the system fail to upgrade if rock-dkms modules were installed.
* ROCm 1.9 changes
* Update README.md
Update ROCr Debug Agent description
Revised wording for upstream KFD per request
* Update installation instruction
Added instruction to uninstall previous version of ROCm before install new version. Added Ubuntu 18.04 as supported distribution.
* Update README to better list supported hardware.
* Add a table of contents to the README
* ROCm 1.9 changes
Update ROCr Debug Agent description
* Update README.md
Added instruction to uninstall previous version of ROCm before install new version. Added Ubuntu 18.04 as supported distribution.
* ROCm 1.9 changes
* Update installation instruction
Added instruction to uninstall previous version of ROCm before install new version. Added Ubuntu 18.04 as supported distribution.
* Update README.md
Two user issues pointed out some confusing text in our current README. In particular: updated the text describing when to disable SDMA engines on Vega 10 (on any system that does not have PCIe atomic support), and show some directions for how to do an OpenCL-focused installation on Ubuntu.
