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The pieces all have exciting versions-must-roughly-match properties. The official distribution idea is pick exactly the recommended OS and install the binary package from amd and it'll be fairly solid.

I totally ignore that recommendation and sometimes have a happily working system and sometimes it's a wreck. In particular, the upstream Linux driver (what you have anyway) and the dkms built one are sometimes rather divergent. Llvm in rocm has different behaviour to the upstream llvm too.

I'm cautiously optimistic that Debian is packaging will end up as turn key just-works. Part of that is persuading AND developers that breaking ABI has consequences, which it kind of doesn't on the install all of rocm together model.

Right now, I use Debian with the same kernel version that the ROCm recommended Ubuntu ships with and build the dkms driver source intended for Ubuntu on it. That be the wrong thing to do but also totally solid in ymmv fashion.



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