Ten days ago I had an experience with Gemini 3.8 flash that made me wonder if I was being routed to a different model under test. I was trying to use rocm with llama.cpp on my 128gb Strix Halo but could only get it to run Vulkan. I pasted the error message into agy and it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo. My jaw was hanging open the whole time.
Edit to add the fix: <a href="https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c351" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c3...
> it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo.
Most llm could do it. Claude went from firmware thread -> rtos scheduler -> mcu reference manual -> hardware controller register interface -> vendor sdk -> problem identification and the solution to it in a matter of 30 minutes. Linux could be even easier since it is so well trained on.
taylorfinley · · focus · HN ↗
Edit to add the fix: <a href="https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c351" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c3...
mirmor23 · · focus · HN ↗
Most llm could do it. Claude went from firmware thread -> rtos scheduler -> mcu reference manual -> hardware controller register interface -> vendor sdk -> problem identification and the solution to it in a matter of 30 minutes. Linux could be even easier since it is so well trained on.