On Linux there should be better chances to find people which can analyze code, debug failures or bottlenecks than on Windows, where probably a lot of contribution comes from gamers, which in majority don't have that insight or experience. For example I'm owner of a company with about 15 employees and my company is developing embedded electronics, a lot of that running embedded variants of Linux - for which we develop software and sometimes create or own ports of Linux.muziqaz wrote:I believe we might make a decision to ban AMD folding on Linux fahbenching will not help anything on Linux. It is clear as day that AMD on Linux is like winning a lottery. Does more harm than good.
I'm running Linux since my time at the university, so since about 1992. My first contribution at that time was a driver for the SCSI adapter I had in my system. My company is using Linux in embedded devices, since in case of trouble we can debug ourselves, while for Windows we are dependent on whether Microsoft intends to do something and when something will be done. That is not acceptable for us and our clients in industrial automation, our clients expect that systems run and in case of problems fixes are provided.
The problem is, to help in debugging, the system has to be open and accessible - what unfortunately is not the case for FAH, since it is closed source. And even the parts which are open source (like openMM) don't help, if some problematic WUs can not (effectively, in a documented way) be run on the open source parts for debugging. The new compute stack ROCm from AMD is completely open source, so debugging problems with FAH would help both FAH and the AMD software. But in lack of debug possibilities from the FAH side the only thing that is left is complaining.