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!llum1nated

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Registered: 2017-02-23

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How to install AMD Blockchain Compute driver fix for Arch Linux?

Hi, for people who mine ethereum, this is a must have!

Its possible someone can create a package for it, or its only possible build as new kernel, how about to install as addon? Please let me know!

First need to install latest opencl-amd from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd/

Also in manual for AMDGPU-PRO it says: https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articl … stall.aspx

Installing the Optional ROCm Component
This AMDGPU-Pro driver package incorporates the ROCm component that can be optionally installed for running Compute/OpenCL applications.  You can install the component by issuing the following command:

sudo apt install -y rocm-amdgpu-pro

Now how to install ROCm as component in Arch Linux, it only gives instructions for Ubuntu?

Here is the ROCm official github page.
https://rocm.github.io/install.html

Here I found some few months old post about how to build kernel with rocm on Arch Linux, not sure if works with latest kernel? https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/117

To compile the kernel:

First, clone the linux-git repo and check out the commit for linux 4.9.0

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/linux-git.git linux-rocm
cd linux-rocm
git checkout 63b0d79
Then, edit PKGBUILD and rename linux-git.preset to linux-rocm.preset

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index ae5e7b0..c135a8f 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@
 # Contributor: misc <tastky@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: NextHendrix <cjones12 at sheffield.ac.uk>

-pkgbase=linux-git
-_srcname=linux
-pkgver=4.9.r0.g69973b8
+pkgbase=linux-rocm
+_srcname=ROCK-Kernel-Driver
+pkgver=roc.1.5.0.r0.g757f29e928f0
 pkgrel=1
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://www.kernel.org/"
 license=('GPL2')
 makedepends=('xmlto' 'docbook-xsl' 'kmod' 'inetutils' 'bc' 'git' 'libelf')
 options=('!strip')
-source=('git+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git'
+source=('git+https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCK-Kernel-Driver.git'
         # the main kernel config files
         'config' 'config.x86_64'
         # standard config files for mkinitcpio ramdisk
diff --git a/linux-git.preset b/linux-rocm.preset
similarity index 100%
rename from linux-git.preset
rename to linux-rocm.preset
Finally, makepkg

makepkg -s

ROCm offers a docker that can be used to try out the userspace tools: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-docker

Here are instrucions for Ubuntu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic … sg21305411

#Install new ROCm Kernel: 

wget -qO - http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ xenial main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rocm

#edit grub
sudo nano  /etc/default/grub
#2MB fragments for Ellesmere are enabled with a grub option:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"

sudo update-grub
sudo reboot

Last edited by !llum1nated (2017-10-27 23:46:53)

!llum1nated

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Re: How to install AMD Blockchain Compute driver fix for Arch Linux?

Bump

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Re: How to install AMD Blockchain Compute driver fix for Arch Linux?

Don't do that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ct#Bumping

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archid

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Re: How to install AMD Blockchain Compute driver fix for Arch Linux?

Is anyone on this? It would be a big help.

eggz

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Re: How to install AMD Blockchain Compute driver fix for Arch Linux?

I'm 'on it' as well for many months, but so far utterly failing. Actually, this is just a fancy way of bumping.

loqs

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Re: How to install AMD Blockchain Compute driver fix for Arch Linux?

I'm 'on it' as well for many months, but so far utterly failing.

What have you tried so far?  How has that failed?