With the GFX940 patches in full swing since first week of March, it is looking like MI300 is not far in the distant future!
Usually AMD takes around 3Qs to get the support in LLVM and amdgpu. Lately, since RDNA2 the window they push to add support for new devices is much reduced to prevent leaks.
But looking at the flurry of code in LLVM, it is a lot of commits. Maybe because US Govt is starting to prepare the SW environment for El Capitan (Maybe to avoid slow bring up situation like Frontier for example)
See here for the GFX940 specific commits
History for llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU – llvm/llvm-project
github.com
Or Phoronix
More AMD “GFX940” Enablement Work Landing In LLVM – Phoronix
www.phoronix.com
There is a lot more if you know whom to follow in LLVM review chains (before getting merged to github), but I am not going to link AMD employees.
I am starting to think MI300 will launch around the same time like Hopper probably only a…