Almost everyone on Linux will have experience of breaking their drivers at some point, and installing another alternate set is a big risk.
It seems silly to not have OpenCL and HIP access without having to use this alternate stack.
So even if I wanted, I can't. Sincerely, I'm fed up with AMD's attitude towards compute.
ROCm 4.5 is the _last_ version to support the Vega10 ASIC (MI25, Vega56, Vega64).
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/#amd-instinct-mi25...
The next ROCm release after 4.5 is sometime in Q1 next year. So it's on planned death really soon.
It is transitioning to _that_ comical AMD "enabled in the codebase but not tested and not supported" state, rotting slowly like Polaris support did.
I was concerned about that as well, but I don't personally know anyone who owns a gfx900 card. I'm a little unclear on what impact it will have on the community.
The MI25 wasn't targeted at the general public, but it wasn't hard to buy one. And the customer products using that same die, Vega 56 and 64, were sold quite a bit.
What affected the community severely might be the combination of both GFX8 and gfx900 going away, leaving only MI50 (Vega20, also used in Radeon VII consumer variant) and no support (only unofficial enablement) for the later customer products. Because those went GFX10/Navi.