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ROCm documentation must make clear that 4.0[1] does NOT currently work on virgin Ubuntu 20.04 #112

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vegabook opened this issue Feb 18, 2021 · 5 comments

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vegabook commented Feb 18, 2021

ROCm/ROCm#1367 (comment)

The canonical documentation site (and I say "canonical" because there are scraps of conflicting ROCm information all over the internet), is presumably this one. However nowhere is it made clear in this documentation, and it should be in BIG RED WRITING, that on the most widely deployed desktop version of Linux, by far, ROCm doesn't install.

No point in having installation documentation which merrily tells you what needs to happen to get ROCm up and running, when there's an obvious issue that hasn't been resolved. This Kernel 5.8 problem, which is the default kernel of the current Ubuntu LTS, should not be buried as if it doesn't exist.

Mentioning in brackets as you do "(Ubuntu 20.04.1 (5.4 and 5.6-oem) and 18.04.5 (Kernel 5.4)" is insufficient because most users will not even see this, nor indeed do many users even care what kernel they're on, if they even know. They just expect a virgin 20.04 + ROCm 4 installation, to work. If it doesn't please say so boldly, and indeed, if it doesn't work on Linux's "baseline" distro, then it shouldn't even have been released. This is not some fancy Fedora cutting-edge "testing" distro. This is Ubuntu LTS.

@vegabook vegabook changed the title Rocm documenation must make clear that 4.0[1] does NOT currently work on virgin Ubuntu 20.04 Rocm documentation must make clear that 4.0[1] does NOT currently work on virgin Ubuntu 20.04 Feb 18, 2021
@vegabook vegabook changed the title Rocm documentation must make clear that 4.0[1] does NOT currently work on virgin Ubuntu 20.04 ROCm documentation must make clear that 4.0[1] does NOT currently work on virgin Ubuntu 20.04 Feb 18, 2021
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srinivamd commented Mar 26, 2021

This Kernel 5.8 problem

ROCm 4.1 release works on 5.8.

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This Kernel 5.8 problem

ROCm 4.1 release works on 5.8.

Apols this does not work on Ubuntu 20.04.2. Only on 20.04.1.

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This Kernel 5.8 problem

ROCm 4.1 release works on 5.8.

Apols this does not work on Ubuntu 20.04.2. Only on 20.04.1.

FWIW, Here's details from system ROCm 4.1 worked:
cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

$ uname -a
Linux ### 5.8.0-48-generic #54~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Mar 20 13:40:25 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ /opt/rocm-4.1.0/bin/rocm-smi
======================= ROCm System Management Interface =======================
================================= Concise Info =================================
GPU Temp AvgPwr SCLK MCLK Fan Perf PwrCap VRAM% GPU%
0 28.0c 16.0W 938Mhz 350Mhz 0.0% auto 225.0W 0% 0%
1 28.0c 19.0W 938Mhz 350Mhz 0.0% auto 225.0W 0% 0%
2 27.0c 16.0W 938Mhz 350Mhz 0.0% auto 225.0W 0% 0%
3 28.0c 16.0W 938Mhz 350Mhz 0.0% auto 225.0W 0% 0%
================================================================================
============================= End of ROCm SMI Log ==============================
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jleni commented May 20, 2021

@srinivamd
Could you explain how?

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srinivamd commented May 20, 2021

@jleni I followed pre-install instructions from https://github.com/srinivamd/rocminstaller to set up Ubuntu 20.04. Used the installer script to install 4.1 (sudo python3 ./rocminstall.py --rev 4.1 --nomiopenkernels for 4.1 install) on system with no ROCm packages previously installed. Edited: Add --nomiopenkernels option for faster install.
What is the issue? Do you have rocm_techsupport.sh logs? More info here: https://github.com/amddcgpuce/rocmtechsupport

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