George Hotz | Exploring | finding exploits in AMD's GPU firmware | Giving up on AMD for the tinybox

Date of the stream 21 Mar 2024. from $1050 buy https://comma.ai/shop/comma-3x & best ADAS system in the world https://openpilot.comma.ai Live-stream chat added as Subtitles/CC - English (Twitch Chat) - at the bottom - Show Transcript Source: - https://github.com/geohot/7900xtx Follow for notifications: - https://twitch.tv/georgehotz Support George: - https://twitch.tv/subs/georgehotz Pre-order tinybox: - https://buy.stripe.com/5kAaGL6lk9uX9nW144 (https://tinygrad.org/) Chapters: 00:00:00 intro 00:00:40 blog post 00:02:00 open source driver, bugs 00:04:25 pre-orders, cheapETH, George jobs 00:06:30 no one use AMD? kernel, user space 00:08:25 not understanding, business platitudes, unpaid QA team 00:09:40 bugs are not in the driver, kernel driver does not talk to the hardware 00:12:45 GSP, MES 00:13:50 llvm amdgpu launching a kernel, firmware blobs 00:17:00 amd on mlperf 00:18:08 AMDGPU kernel driver change log, will never get better unless 00:19:05 Elon companies 00:19:20 people who succeed in companies do not care 00:21:15 believing wrong things, change, correcting 00:21:55 scaling comma.ai, throwing money at comma.ai, $1 mil per month 00:24:05 fundamentally correct, life wasted on wrong things 00:24:35 kernel dispatch, CP 00:26:08 technically wrong 00:27:49 deadlock, root causing 00:29:10 will never get better 00:30:40 props to AMD, fixing the issues 00:31:20 MES correct description 00:31:50 normal bug 00:32:40 oh god, appreciation for software development, horrifying solution, why is this a flag 00:33:40 drivers have been shit for 25 years 00:34:07 should be an if statement in the allocator not a flag 00:35:20 offer, downside risk, worries about bad PR 00:38:40 sony, suing someone, led by emotions 00:41:10 instinct, Nvidia generations, Apple monopoly 00:45:45 blackwell chip, RDNA 4, Dojo 00:48:50 tenstorrent, mlperf 00:50:45 turing completeness 00:51:00 Jim Keller 00:52:26 7900XTX firmware, Elon can execute 00:53:30 12xIntel Arc, Groq LPU scam demo, Nvidia king 0