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Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 Advertises Linux Support (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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Ryzen AI Software as AMD's collection of tools and libraries for AI inferencing on AMD Ryzen AI class PCs has Linux support with its newest point release. Though this "early access" Linux support is restricted to registered AMD customers.

Earlier this year we reported on AMD previewing a new Linux runtime stack for Ryzen AI NPUs and built off their AMDXDNA kernel accelerator driver. That now appears to be bundled into the Ryzen AI Software collection, which previously was Windows-only. With the newest Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 point release the only noted change in the release notes is Linux support:

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I saw this complaint everywhere. This is basically code for "AMD NPU Support." AMD prioritized support on Windows first like that's where all the ML devs were...

To crickets.

No one so much as looked at it.

There might be a chance in heck the NPUs actually work with something now, on both Windows and Linux. Still an off chance, because apparently a $384,000,000,000 company can't spare a single engineer to work on GGML/llama.cpp...