1.8 is still 16.04 based understand we have to wait until base Linux driver team get is support in place. One big change from the past is we now have base driver support for ROCm upstream for Polaris, Fiji Vega10, and some newer GPU so in the future you will be able to get earlier...
~/Source/Repos/linux$ git apply ~/Downloads/amdkfd-patches/02-21-drm-amd-Update-GFXv9-SDMA-MQD-structure.patch mnagy@radeon:~/Source/Repos/linux$ git apply ~/Downloads/amdkfd-patches/03-21-drm-amdgpu-Add-GFXv9-TLB-invalidation-packet-definition.patch mnagy@radeon:~/Source/Repos/linux$...