Bug#1021646: blender: enable HIP in Cycles (2023 Update)

2023-10-12 Thread Cordell Bloor
Hello Maintainer, Would you be open to a patch or merge request that enabled HIP support to the blender package? HIP has been available in Debian for over a year now and the packaging is a bit more mature. It is now possible to build for HIP just by adding hipcc to the build dependencies and

Bug#1021646: blender: enable HIP in Cycles

2022-10-11 Thread Cordell Bloor
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. T