Following pushes from the community to do so— particularly from George Hotz' Tiny Corp— AMD has finally started open sourcing some of their GPU software stack and documentation, including open-sourcing their MES (Micro-Engine Scheduler). Open-sourcing of the MES was one of the things that Tiny Corp predicted AMD would do last month, though they seemed to have predicted a turnaround time well sooner than the one we actually got. As-is, we're still waiting for the full release— this is just AMD announcing their intent to do it.
For those unfamiliar with Tiny Corp, the important thing to know is that they're responsible for building "TinyBox", which is their design for an AI-powered server using AMD hardware. While the TinyBox indeed shows the potential power of AMD's raw GPU compute, deeper issues seemed to force Tiny Corp to make an Nvidia version, as well, citing that the AMD machine simply doesn't work as intended.
