zlacker

> I'm really rooting for AMD to break the CUDA monopoly. To this end, I genuinely don't know whether a translation layer is a good thing or not. On the upside it makes the hardware much more viable instantly and will boost adoption, on the downside you run the risk that devs will never support ROCm, because you can just use the translation layer.

On the other hand:

> The next major ROCm release (ROCm 6.0) will not be backward [source] compatible with the ROCm 5 series.

Even worse, not even the driver is backwards-compatible:

> There are some known limitations though like currently only targeting the ROCm 5.x API and not the newly-released ROCm 6.x releases.. In turn having to stick to ROCm 5.7 series as the latest means that using the ROCm DKMS modules don't build against the Linux 6.5 kernel now shipped by Ubuntu 22.04 LTS HWE stacks, for example. Hopefully there will be enough community support to see ZLUDA ported to ROCM 6 so at least it can be maintained with current software releases.