Care for a version bump? ;) AMD released a special purpose Beta Mining Driver.
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-GPU-PRO-Linux-Beta-Driver%E2%80%93Release-Notes.aspx Latest version is currently 16.40-348864
The 17.x0 versions currently in tree are all Betas, as is the new special purpose Beta. I guess current "stable" 16.40-348864 won't even run on a current stable amd64 setup.
Craig, the "beta" link you have posted has been long outdated... You can find the current ones on https://support.amd.com/en-us/download ; as of the time of me writing this the latest stable version is 17.40-492261 for Vega Frontier Edition GPUs and 17.30-465504 (i.e. the one now in Gentoo) for all other non-legacy cards. ernsteiswuerfel, I am afraid this is not a matter of a version bump. You have said yourself that this is a special-purpose driver, and AMD release notes go on to state clearly "this driver is not intended for graphics or gaming workloads". As such, this driver would have to be added to Gentoo as a separate package - one that I might add I am not interested in maintaining because my own interest in OpenCL lies entirely in the domain of graphics workloads.
Plausible argumentation Marek. If it's only for me, I got no problem in closing the bug as WONTFIX.
Interesting - the AMDGPU-Pro mining driver I mentioned just turned into their general purpose stable Linux driver: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx The 'mining part' is hidden behind the "Enabling Large Page Support" kernel parameter: amdgpu.vm_fragment_size= @Marek: I took the freedom to CC you as I thought you might find this interesting. Apologies if that's not the case.
Ooh, nice! Looks like it's up to me again, then :-) I'll run some tests of the new version on my AMD box some time during the next few days so you can expect it to be merged within the next few days. Thank you very much for the update.
commit ce09459c7eb7b96558a5bf9068669c05d54ea1e3 Author: Marek Szuba Date: Sun Nov 19 21:02:12 2017 dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl: bump to 17.40.492261 * * * That said, cryptocurrency miners please be aware that even if you do set the necessary kernel parameter, using this version will NOT improve your mining performance. What you need is >=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-4.14.0 (or equivalent) because vm_fragment_size is an option of the amdgpu kernel module, not the OpenCL library, and support for this option has only been available in mainline Linux kernels since 4.14. Oh, and come 4.15 you likely won't need the kernel parameter any more because a patch was merged into the kernel about 2 months ago which makes two-megabyte fragments the default for Sea Islands and newer GPUs.
