Kernel Driver

Versions

Starting from ROCm 4.5, AMD moves to use amdgpu-dkms instead of rock-dkms as the kernel driver for GPU.

rock-dkms - Open-source kernel driver module made spcifically for ROCm.
amdgpu-dkms - Open-source kernel driver module for general use which may have a newer version compared to the same driver module in mainline.
amdgpu-pro - Proprietary kernel driver overlay on top of amdgpu-dkms which provides additional features.

amdgpu version	ROCm version
21.40.x	4.5.x
21.50.x	5.0.x
22.10.x	5.1.x
22.20.x	5.2.x

https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/

Installation

# rocm-dkms
# ├── rock-dkms
# ├── rocm-dev
# └── rocm-core

# Pre-ROCm 4.5 uses `rock-dkms` kernel driver
apt install rocm-dkms

# On and after ROCm 4.5, `amdgpu-dkms` provides `rock-dkms` kernel driver
apt install rocm-dkms

# On and after ROCm 5.0, official doc uses `amdgpu-dkms`
apt install amdgpu-dkms
apt install rocm-dev rocm-core

# On and after ROCm 6.0, official doc uses `rocm`
# `rocm-dkms` still works until being removed in ROCm 6.2
apt install amdgpu-dkms
apt install rocm