I don't know what AMD is planning here; but tweets and a bug tracker is not useful progress. I am not optimistic that this will be meaningful. That being said,

I don't know what AMD is planning here; but tweets and a bug tracker is not useful progress. I am not optimistic that this will be meaningful. That being said, if they start open sourcing the firmware that would potentially be huge. And if they do actually fix some of geohot's bugs that would potentially be significant. There seems to be a small and finite set of bugs on any given AMD card that are blockers. If, by hook or crook, they fix that list of bugs then the card will probably be a lot more useful for machine learning. If they stop with the stupid crashes, everything else seems to be ok. They only need to do BLAS and data transfers reliably. But knee-jerk bugfixing in response to public pressure is a really bad sign. This still wouldn't be the thoughtful root cause analysis that leads to high quality software. Plan->Do->Check->Act; not Panic->Tweet->Code->Crash.