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First of all, thank you for your work and congratulations on your achievements, both in the search for Mersenne primes and software development.

I am contributing to GIMPS with 2 Radeon Pro VII cards. I'm wondering what will happen when ROCm stops supporting these GPUs.

Do you have any plans to keep them working with GPUOwl/Prpll when they are no longer supported by ROCm?

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IF ROCm stops supporting Radeon Pro VII, the first solution is to stay on the most recent ROCm that still supports them.

Second, "does not support anymore" does not necessarily mean that it stops working on the old HW, but it could mean that new features/extension aren't implemented for the old HW anymore, and we may not care about those.

Third, AMD does contribute and integrates changes with upstream LLVM. This open-source work could be used by third parties (with significant effort I assume) to continue support.

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