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  :description: Install rocminfo
  :keywords: install, rocminfo, AMD, ROCm

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Build rocminfo from source
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To build rocminfo as part of the ROCm Core SDK, see `TheRock build
instructions
<https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock/blob/main/docs/development/README.md>`__.
TheRock is the recommended way to build ROCm components from source.

Alternatively, you can build rocminfo standalone using the following
instructions.

Build rocminfo using CMake
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Use the standard CMake build procedure to build rocminfo. The ROCm root directory (the parent directory containing ROCM headers and libraries) must be provided as a CMake argument using the standard ``CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH`` variable.

After cloning the `rocminfo Git repository <https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems/tree/develop/projects/rocminfo>`_, run ``git fetch --tags`` to retrieve the repository tags, which are used for versioning.

For example:

.. code-block:: bash

   $ git fetch --tags origin

Building from the CMakeLists.txt directory might look like this:

.. code-block:: bash

   mkdir -p build

   cd build

   cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/rocm ..

   make

   cd ..

Upon a successful build, the rocminfo binary and the Python script ``rocm_agent_enumerator`` will present in the ``build`` directory.

rocminfo execution
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rocminfo reports information about HSA system attributes and agents.

``rocm_agent_enumerator`` prints a list of AMD GCN ISA or architecture names. With the option ``-name``, it prints out the available architecture names obtained from rocminfo. Otherwise, it generates the ISA in one of the following ways:

* ``ROCM_TARGET_LST``: A user-defined environment variable that specifies the path to the ``target.lst`` file. This can be used in a sandboxed install environment where executing rocminfo is not possible.

* ``target.lst``: A user-supplied text file in the same folder as ``rocm_agent_enumerator``. This can be used in a container environment where the ROCm stack is not available.

* HSA topology: Gathers information from the HSA node topology under ``/sys/class/kfd/kfd/topology/nodes/``.

* ``lspci``: Enumerates the PCI bus and locates supported devices from a hard-coded lookup table.

* rocminfo: A tool shipped with this script to enumerate GPU agents available on a working ROCm stack.