The team's communication channel is the Debian AI mailing list [1], and they'd absolutely appreciate someone reaching out. Having ROCm succeed is a mutual inter

The team's communication channel is the Debian AI mailing list [1], and they'd absolutely appreciate someone reaching out. Having ROCm succeed is a mutual interest. From what I recall, on the software side, I think the difficulties stemmed from ROCm being distributed (naturally, of course) as a vendor would do it, for example: targeting specific kernels, compilers, distribution versions. The problem with this is that all these may become out of date, which means that the GitHub instructions may no longer work for anyone wanting to give it a try. This was the case for some of the team members attempting to rebuild some of the packages. The Debian team would prefer to package all elements of the ROCm ecosystem and include them in the official Debian archive, so that users can just run `apt-get install rocm-something` without worrying about the kernel version etc., just as they can already do a trivial `apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit`. I think collaboration with AMD here would be mutually beneficial, as on the one hand, Debian wants FOSS accelerated computing, which AMD is pushing, and on the other hand, Debian is naturally experienced in distributing things for Debian, Ubuntu, etc., something AMD could benefit from. Thank you for engaging! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/