diff --git a/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/.gitignore b/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/.gitignore
index af79f3e4472a..3d5e122cd3d2 100644
--- a/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/.gitignore
+++ b/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 hipify_rccl
 topo_expl
 include/nccl.h
+include/rccl/rccl.h
 third_party/
diff --git a/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/Makefile b/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/Makefile
index e48f7f7e4171..43b3bea2a582 100644
--- a/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/Makefile
+++ b/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2019-2026 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
 ROCM_PATH ?= /opt/rocm
 HIPCC = $(ROCM_PATH)/bin/hipcc
+
+# Probe compiler. Not hipcc: its HIP driver mode pulls cuda_wrappers/bits/c++config.h,
+# which clashes with recent libstdc++ and makes a valid probe fail.
+# Locate it the same way toolchain-linux.cmake does (bin/ then llvm/bin/); a
+# missing probe compiler must fail loudly, not silently degrade a probe to "no"
+# and recompile the colliding UALoE compat types this build set out to avoid.
+# Use ifeq rather than ?= so an explicitly empty override (PROBE_CXX= make)
+# still triggers detection instead of being treated as already set.
+ifeq ($(strip $(PROBE_CXX)),)
+PROBE_CXX := $(shell \
+  for c in $(ROCM_PATH)/bin/amdclang++ $(ROCM_PATH)/llvm/bin/amdclang++ $(ROCM_PATH)/llvm/bin/clang++; do \
+    if [ -x "$$c" ]; then echo "$$c"; break; fi; \
+  done)
+endif
+ifeq ($(strip $(PROBE_CXX)),)
+$(error Cannot find amdclang++/clang++ under $(ROCM_PATH)/bin or $(ROCM_PATH)/llvm/bin. Set PROBE_CXX explicitly.)
+endif
+# Resolve PROBE_CXX (absolute path or bare name on PATH) and confirm the target
+# is executable. Testing -x on the resolved path catches the exists-but-not-
+# runnable case that a bare command -v would still report as found.
+ifeq ($(shell p=$$(command -v $(PROBE_CXX) 2>/dev/null); [ -n "$$p" ] && [ -x "$$p" ] && echo ok),)
+$(error PROBE_CXX ($(PROBE_CXX)) is not executable. Set PROBE_CXX to a valid C++ compiler.)
+endif
 HIPIFY_PL_EXE ?= $(ROCM_PATH)/bin/hipify-perl
 HIPIFY_PL_FLAGS = -inplace -quiet-warnings
 
@@ -29,11 +52,19 @@ NCCL_OS_DEFINE := -DNCCL_OS_WINDOWS
 endif
 
 # topo_expl bypasses RCCL's CMake configuration, so reproduce the two
-# compile-time feature probes needed by headers it imports.
+# compile-time feature probes needed by headers it imports. Probes compile a
+# real temp file (like CMake's check_cxx_source_compiles) with the plain
+# compiler PROBE_CXX rather than piping through hipcc's HIP driver.
+PROBE_TMP := $(shell mktemp --suffix=.cpp)
+ifeq ($(strip $(PROBE_TMP)),)
+$(error Failed to create a temp file for the feature probes. Check that TMPDIR is writable.)
+endif
+
 HAVE_HIP_FABRIC_API := $(shell printf '%s\n' \
   '#include <hip/hip_runtime_api.h>' \
-  'int main() { hipMemFabricHandle_t h{}; (void)h; auto fn = &hipMemImportFromShareableHandle; (void)fn; }' | \
-  $(HIPCC) -x c++ -std=c++17 -fsyntax-only -D__HIP_PLATFORM_AMD__ -I$(ROCM_PATH)/include - \
+  'int main() { hipMemFabricHandle_t h{}; (void)h; auto fn = &hipMemImportFromShareableHandle; (void)fn; }' \
+  > $(PROBE_TMP) && \
+  $(PROBE_CXX) -x c++ -std=c++17 -fsyntax-only -D__HIP_PLATFORM_AMD__ -I$(ROCM_PATH)/include $(PROBE_TMP) \
   >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo yes || echo no)
 ifeq ($(HAVE_HIP_FABRIC_API),yes)
 FEATURE_DEFINES += -DHIP_FABRIC_API
@@ -41,8 +72,9 @@ endif
 
 HAVE_AMDSMI_FABRIC_API := $(shell printf '%s\n' \
   '#include <amd_smi/amdsmi.h>' \
-  'int main() { amdsmi_fabric_info_t info{}; (void)info; }' | \
-  $(HIPCC) -x c++ -std=c++17 -fsyntax-only -I$(ROCM_PATH)/include - \
+  'int main() { amdsmi_fabric_info_t info{}; (void)info; }' \
+  > $(PROBE_TMP) && \
+  $(PROBE_CXX) -x c++ -std=c++17 -fsyntax-only -I$(ROCM_PATH)/include $(PROBE_TMP) \
   >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo yes || echo no)
 ifeq ($(HAVE_AMDSMI_FABRIC_API),yes)
 FEATURE_DEFINES += -DAMDSMI_FABRIC_DIRECT
@@ -53,13 +85,16 @@ endif
 # compat typedefs that collide with the system header (extra topo_expl compile).
 HAVE_AMDSMI_FABRIC_TELEMETRY := $(shell printf '%s\n' \
   '#include <amd_smi/amdsmi.h>' \
-  'int main() { amdsmi_fabric_telemetry_category_t cat = AMDSMI_FABRIC_TELEMETRY_CATEGORY_UNKNOWN; (void)cat; }' | \
-  $(HIPCC) -x c++ -std=c++17 -fsyntax-only -I$(ROCM_PATH)/include - \
+  'int main() { amdsmi_fabric_telemetry_category_t cat = AMDSMI_FABRIC_TELEMETRY_CATEGORY_UNKNOWN; (void)cat; }' \
+  > $(PROBE_TMP) && \
+  $(PROBE_CXX) -x c++ -std=c++17 -fsyntax-only -I$(ROCM_PATH)/include $(PROBE_TMP) \
   >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo yes || echo no)
 ifeq ($(HAVE_AMDSMI_FABRIC_TELEMETRY),yes)
 FEATURE_DEFINES += -DAMDSMI_HEADER_HAS_FABRIC_TELEMETRY -DAMDSMI_FABRIC_DIRECT
 endif
 
+PROBE_CLEANUP := $(shell rm -f $(PROBE_TMP))
+
 CXXFLAGS = -g -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -DROCM_VERSION=$(ROCM_VERSION) \
            -std=c++17 \
            -Wl,--gc-sections -fgpu-rdc \
@@ -67,6 +102,7 @@ CXXFLAGS = -g -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -DROCM_VERSION=$(ROCM_VERSION)
 		   -Ihipify_rccl/include/nccl_device \
            -Ihipify_rccl/src/device/include -Ihipify_rccl/graph -I$(ROCM_PATH)/include/ \
            -DTOPO_EXPL -DENABLE_TRACE -DENABLE_LL128 -DNVTX_NO_IMPL -DRCCL_EXPOSE_STATIC \
+           -DUSE_AMDSMI \
            $(NCCL_OS_DEFINE) $(FEATURE_DEFINES) \
            -lpthread
 
diff --git a/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/src/topo_expl_impl.cpp b/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/src/topo_expl_impl.cpp
index d823ae088025..6cbbaf162130 100644
--- a/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/src/topo_expl_impl.cpp
+++ b/projects/rccl/tools/topo_expl/src/topo_expl_impl.cpp
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #include "coll_net.h"
 #include "model.h"
 #include "topo_expl_impl.h"
-#include "rocm_smi/rocm_smi.h"
+#include "amdsmi_wrap.h"
 
 const char* ncclFuncStr[NCCL_NUM_FUNCTIONS+4] = { "AllGather", "AllReduce", "AlltoAllPivot", "AlltoAllGda", "AlltoAllvGda", "Broadcast", "Reduce", "ReduceScatter", "SendRecv" };
 const char* ncclAlgoStr[NCCL_NUM_ALGORITHMS] = { "Tree", "Ring", "CollNetDirect", "CollNetChain", "NVLS", "NVLSTree", "PAT" };
@@ -1327,23 +1327,34 @@ ncclResult_t initTransportsRank_3(struct ncclComm* comm, struct allGatherInfo *a
   goto exit;
 }
 
-ncclResult_t rocm_smi_init() {
+ncclResult_t amd_smi_init() {
   return ncclSuccess;
 }
 
-ncclResult_t rocm_smi_getNumDevice(uint32_t* num_devs) {
+ncclResult_t amd_smi_getNumDevice(uint32_t* num_devs) {
+  if (num_devs) *num_devs = 0;
   return ncclSuccess;
 }
 
-ncclResult_t rocm_smi_getDevicePciBusIdString(uint32_t deviceIndex, char* busId, size_t len) {
+ncclResult_t amd_smi_getDevicePciBusIdString(uint32_t deviceIndex, char* busId, size_t len) {
   return ncclSuccess;
 }
 
-ncclResult_t rocm_smi_getDeviceIndexByPciBusId(const char* pciBusId, uint32_t* deviceIndex) {
+ncclResult_t amd_smi_getDeviceIndexByPciBusId(const char* pciBusId, uint32_t* deviceIndex) {
   return ncclSuccess;
 }
 
-ncclResult_t rocm_smi_getLinkInfo(int srcIndex, int dstIndex, RSMI_IO_LINK_TYPE* rsmi_type, int *hops, int *count) {
+ncclResult_t amd_smi_getLinkInfo(int srcDev, int dstDev, amdsmi_link_type_t* type, int* hops, int* count) {
+  return ncclSuccess;
+}
+
+ncclResult_t amd_smi_getFabricDeviceInfo(uint32_t deviceIndex, struct amdsmiFabricDeviceInfo* info) {
+  if (info) *info = {};
+  return ncclSuccess;
+}
+
+ncclResult_t amd_smi_getFirmwareVersion(uint32_t deviceIndex, uint64_t* fwVersion) {
+  if (fwVersion) *fwVersion = 0;
   return ncclSuccess;
 }