@Daniel Gerzhoy <daniel.gerz...@gmail.com>, could you let us know how you modified the dockerfile?
@Kyle or @Dan, if you can make an update to the dockerfile and push it, we'd appreciate it. It's really too bad (and difficult for everyone) that we're stuck on such a specific version of ROCm :). Cheers, Jason On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 11:11 AM Poremba, Matthew <matthew.pore...@amd.com> wrote: > [AMD Public Use] > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I would also be interested if anyone has found a solution to this. I > currently cannot test any of the patches I was hoping to finish this week > due to this issue. I am not very familiar with docker, and after about 30 > minutes of going through documentation wasn’t even sure how to install > additional things after the build command. Eventually I ended up rebuilding > the whole image again. I’ve also tried adding scons with pip, which seems > to install the correct “script” for scons, however the “engine” version is > still pointing to the older copy that ships with 16.04 so that again didn’t > work. The last thing I am going to try it figure out what is installing the > system version of scons (apt?) and remove that completely in hopes that it > only finds the pip version. > > > > > > -Matt > > > > *From:* Jason Lowe-Power via gem5-dev <gem5-dev@gem5.org> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 2, 2020 8:03 AM > *To:* Gabe Black <gabebl...@google.com> > *Cc:* gem5 Developer List <gem5-dev@gem5.org>; Kyle Roarty < > kroa...@wisc.edu>; Jason Lowe-Power <ja...@lowepower.com> > *Subject:* [gem5-dev] Re: Scons minimum version breaks GCN-gpu dockerfile > build > > > > [CAUTION: External Email] > > It's AMD's GPGPU runtime framework: https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/ > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frocmdocs.amd.com%2Fen%2Flatest%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cmatthew.poremba%40amd.com%7Ce7a7d2e4b29249f2bcb308d84f516166%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637346558243267801&sdata=q8hCTHB5S0MYRy4DrbqdM2NKT5WUSyDLAsieiZKbyEI%3D&reserved=0> > > > > From what I can tell (it's been many years since I've worked deeply with > AMD GPGPUs) the user and kernel APIs change incredibly frequently. So, > rather than trying to keep up with a moving target, the current GCN > (graphics core next, which is actually not "next" anymore but a couple of > generations behind) support in gem5 is tied to a version of ROCm from ~3-5 > years ago. This requires Ubuntu 16.04. Kyle did a great job setting up a > docker environment with everything that's needed ( > https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5/+/refs/heads/develop/util/dockerfiles/gcn-gpu/Dockerfile > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgem5.googlesource.com%2Fpublic%2Fgem5%2F%2B%2Frefs%2Fheads%2Fdevelop%2Futil%2Fdockerfiles%2Fgcn-gpu%2FDockerfile&data=02%7C01%7Cmatthew.poremba%40amd.com%7Ce7a7d2e4b29249f2bcb308d84f516166%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637346558243277804&sdata=A46b5FVp9jRXV7RfP776yNG6gq2vnCBpr%2F7MWtV0Na8%3D&reserved=0>). > Annoyingly, since gem5 (currently) only supports SE mode for GPGPUs you > have to use the docker container to build benchmarks, build gem5 *and run* > gem5. > > > > Matt, Brad, Tony, Kyle and others can probably answer any deeper questions. > > > > Cheers, > > jason > > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:46 AM Gabe Black <gabebl...@google.com> wrote: > > What's a ROCM? > > > > Gabe > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:43 AM Jason Lowe-Power via gem5-dev < > gem5-dev@gem5.org> wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > :facepalm: At least this is on develop and not the stable branch! > > > > I think we need to get input from Kyle on this since he developed that > docker image. TBH, I think pip isn't a bad solution given that 16.04 is > more than four years old and we're stuck with that to support the older > version of the ROCM stack. > > > > Creating a jira issue would be appreciated. Please tag Kyle in it, if you > do that. > > > > Cheers, > > Jason > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:19 AM Daniel Gerzhoy via gem5-dev < > gem5-dev@gem5.org> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Pulled latest updates and the minimum version requirement for scons breaks > the GCN-gpu dockerfile. > > > > My fix involved installing the latest scons via pip (after installing pip) > but there is probably a better way to do it (apt-get) but it looks like the > Ubuntu16.04 base for the DockerFile automatically points to 2.4 not 3.0 and > I haven't figured out how to get it to install 3.0 instead yet. > > > > I can open up a Jira ticket as well if that's desirable. (Also if I should > have just done that instead of sending this email please let me know, still > learning protocol). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list -- gem5-dev@gem5.org > To unsubscribe send an email to gem5-dev-le...@gem5.org > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list -- gem5-dev@gem5.org > To unsubscribe send an email to gem5-dev-le...@gem5.org > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s > >
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