Added outline for new ROCm blog post

Author: Zeldhoron

docs/blog/posts/2025/06/eessi-rocm.md

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+---
+authors: [toine, timvc, boegel, ocaisa, darkless]
+date: 2025-06-24
+slug: rocm
+---
+
+# Building ROCm Support in EESSI
+
+* an overview of what we're doing (adding ROCm support, previous blog post, etc)
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+## Our Goals: The ROCm Integration Roadmap
+
+* main objective: full rocm support in EESSI
+* milestones:
+    * building core ROCm components (in EESSI)
+    * driver support
+    * validation suite / examples running
+
+## Foundation Work: What We Did Before
+
+* ecosystem mapping: ROCm overview (previous blog post)
+* used these as a starting point (started on version 6.3.3)
+    * https://github.com/bedroge/eb-rocm/tree/main (Bob)
+    * https://github.com/Thyre/easybuild-custom/tree/support-passing-amdgcn/easybuild/easyconfigs/r (Jan)
+* Davide got ROCm-LLVM to build with EasyBuild
+    * https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/3706
+    * https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/3781
+
+## Current Progress: Building the Core Stack
+
+* for version 6.4.0 the following can build with EasyBuild in the EESSI build container
+    * ROCm-LLVM
+    * rocminfo
+    * rocm-cmake
+    * HIP
+    * amdsmi
+    * roctracer
+* currently testing/building on a VM without AMD GPU
+    * some sanity checks are skipped
+
+details:
+
+* works in an EESSI build container/environment
+* EasyBuild recipes created and tested
+* some patches / workarounds / hooks used
+
+limitations:
+
+* no runtime validation yet
+* skipped sanity checks (no GPU)
+
+## Next Steps: Validating the Integration
+
+high priority:
+
+* add support for the driver/GPU
+* finish adding support for the core components and validation suite / examples in EasyBuild
+* run validation suite / examples to check that everything actually works
+* test building with sanity checks enabled
+
+lower priority:
+
+* add support for more libraries and frameworks
+* add support for popular scientific applications
+* update ROCm overview with experience from building / running ROCm
+* see about contributing overview back to AMD docs

docs/site_specific_config/rocm.md

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 * ROCm-LLVM
 * rocFFT
 
+### rocHPL Dependencies
+
+TODO
+
 ## Compatibility Policies {: #Compatibility-Policies }
 
 [Source](https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/compatibility/compatibility-matrix.html)