Hotz followed a guide published by another team’s research and made the exploit into something that could be easily accessed by the public, which the original r

Hotz followed a guide published by another team’s research and made the exploit into something that could be easily accessed by the public, which the original researchers weren’t too happy about because it brought Sony down on their heads and tightened security up again. But yes, this one sits squarely in “nobody involved looks real good” territory. AMD puts out shit software in general, and ROCm is exceptionally far behind the standard in this field, and often difficult to set up and broken even in “supported” configurations. And the ROCm team have a habit of doing this closed-door development, splitting the actual work into the AMDGPU-PRO driver while neglecting the open one (even in “supported” configurations), and generally just having a process that is not compatible with delivering high-quality open software. And Hotz is being a manchild who melts down about a driver he knew was bad and berates the people who are trying to get him rush patches while they do their dayjob getting the ROCm release out (which hopefully fixes a lot of the complaints around lack of windows support, lack of consumer gpu support, and general (near-total) lack of polish and stability. To their credit AMD finally posted a job listing for like 30 engineers for ROCm. It’s just something they should have done like 4 years ago when ROCm first got rolling. And we are well past the “poor lil amd couldn’t afford that” in 2019 or whatever. If you can’t afford it then don’t start the ROCm initiative and make the promises. Even 2-3 years ago it was clear that the foundation work was done and that if you ever wanted it to go bigger you’d have to do some hiring. And frankly it’s been just as bad with OpenCL before it - support was never good, the runtime constantly had bugs and paper features, etc. AMD didn’t care about GPGPU compute until AI turned into a billion-dollar industry overnight. And that’s a 15-year story there.