Package: blender
Version: 3.2.2+dfsg-3
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I've been working with Étienne Mollier and others on the Debian AI team
to enable ROCm in Debian. I believe it would now be possible to build
Blender with support for AMD GPUs by using the HIP package in Debian
Unstable. The Debian HIP package still has a few rough edges that need
cleaning up, but is fully functional. The rocrand package is an example
of a library that is built using HIP.
AMD HIP support for Navi 21 hardware can be enabled in Blender using
the CMake options:
-DWITH_CYCLES_HIP_BINARIES=ON
-DCYCLES_HIP_BINARIES_ARCH=gfx1030
There are also a few environment variables that are (temporarily)
required to compile HIP code when using the Debian package:
export HIP_CLANG_PATH=/usr/bin
export DEVICE_LIB_PATH=/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/amdgcn/bitcode
export ROCM_PATH=/usr
As well, there are a few packages needed in the Build-Depends:
hipcc
libamd-comgr-dev
libhsa-runtime-dev
rocminfo
I put a bit more background information in my posting on the mailing
list:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/2022/09/msg00507.html
If you have any questions or run into any roadblocks, I'd be glad to
help! If you need hardware for testing, just let me know. There were
a few GPUs donated to the Debian project for supporting HIP and it's
likely that some are still be available.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-126-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages blender depends on:
ii blender-data 3.2.2+dfsg-3
ii fonts-dejavu 2.37-2
ii libavcodec59 7:5.1.2-1
ii libavdevice59 7:5.1.2-1
ii libavformat59 7:5.1.2-1
ii libavutil57 7:5.1.2-1
ii libboost-locale1.74.0 1.74.0-17
ii libc6 2.35-3
ii libembree3-3 3.13.4+dfsg-1
ii libfftw3-double3 3.3.8-2
ii libfreetype6 2.12.1+dfsg-3
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-5
ii libgl1 1.5.0-1
ii libglew2.2 2.2.0-4+b1
ii libgomp1 12.2.0-5
ii libimath-3-1-29 3.1.5-1+b1
ii libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125] 1.9.21~dfsg-1
ii libjemalloc2 5.2.1-5
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.1.2-1+b1
ii libopenal1 1:1.19.1-2
ii libopencolorio2.1 2.1.2+dfsg1-4
ii libopenexr-3-1-30 3.1.5-4
ii libopenimageio2.3 2.3.18.0+dfsg-5
ii libopenjp2-7 2.5.0-1
ii libopenvdb9.1 9.1.0-7+b1
ii libosdcpu3.4.4 3.4.4-2
ii libosdgpu3.4.4 3.4.4-2
ii libpcre3 2:8.39-14
ii libpng16-16 1.6.38-2
ii libpugixml1v5 1.12.1-1
ii libpulse0 16.1+dfsg1-2
ii libpython3.10 3.10.7-2
ii libsdl2-2.0-0 2.24.1+dfsg-1
ii libsndfile1 1.1.0-3
ii libspnav0 1.0-1
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-5
ii libswscale6 7:5.1.2-1
ii libtbb12 2021.5.0-15
ii libtiff5 4.4.0-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.1-2
ii libxfixes3 1:6.0.0-2
ii libxi6 2:1.8-1+b1
ii libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1+b1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1.1
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2
ii libzstd1 1.5.2+dfsg-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4.1
blender recommends no packages.
blender suggests no packages.
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