diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..38b706a86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Unit Tests
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+      - release-*
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: unit-tests-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 15
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libhwloc-dev libdrm-dev
+
+      - name: Set up Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version-file: go.mod
+
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: go test ./...
diff --git a/internal/pkg/allocator/device.go b/internal/pkg/allocator/device.go
index 0358b099a..4cdf6b7c9 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/allocator/device.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/allocator/device.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package allocator
 
 import (
 	"bufio"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -219,9 +220,9 @@ func scanAndPopulatePeerWeights(fromPath string, devices []*Device, lookupNodes
 
 func fetchAllPairWeights(devices []*Device, p2pWeights map[int]map[int]int, folderPath string) error {
 	if len(devices) == 0 {
-		errMsg := fmt.Sprintf("Devices list is empty. Unable to calculate pair wise weights")
+		errMsg := "Devices list is empty. Unable to calculate pair wise weights"
 		glog.Info(errMsg)
-		return fmt.Errorf(errMsg)
+		return errors.New(errMsg)
 	}
 	if folderPath == "" {
 		folderPath = topoRootPath
diff --git a/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu.go b/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu.go
index 4947191d6..874969fea 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu.go
@@ -147,10 +147,19 @@ func GetDevIdsFromTopology(topoRootParam ...string) map[int]string {
 	return renderDevIds
 }
 
+// FatalOnDriverUnavailable controls whether GetAMDGPUs calls glog.Fatalf
+// when the amdgpu driver is not present. Tests set this to false so the
+// test process isn't killed on machines without AMD GPUs.
+var FatalOnDriverUnavailable = true
+
 // GetAMDGPUs return a map of AMD GPU on a node identified by the part of the pci address
 func GetAMDGPUs() map[string]map[string]interface{} {
 	if _, err := os.Stat("/sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/"); err != nil {
-		glog.Fatalf("amdgpu driver unavailable. exiting with exit code 2. error: %s", err)
+		if FatalOnDriverUnavailable {
+			glog.Fatalf("amdgpu driver unavailable. exiting with exit code 2. error: %s", err)
+		}
+		glog.Warningf("amdgpu driver unavailable: %s", err)
+		return map[string]map[string]interface{}{}
 	}
 
 	//ex: /sys/module/amdgpu/drivers/pci:amdgpu/0000:19:00.0
diff --git a/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu_test.go b/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu_test.go
index 85f3df96c..28a33bd8c 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu_test.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/amdgpu/amdgpu_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"reflect"
 	"regexp"
@@ -27,6 +28,11 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
+func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
+	FatalOnDriverUnavailable = false
+	os.Exit(m.Run())
+}
+
 func hasAMDGPU(t *testing.T) bool {
 	devices := GetAMDGPUs()
 
@@ -221,38 +227,38 @@ func TestRenderDevIdsFromTopology(t *testing.T) {
 	renderDevIds := GetDevIdsFromTopology("../../../testdata/topology-parsing-mi308")
 
 	expDevIds := map[int]string{
-		128: "598046273873802902",
-		129: "598046273873802902",
-		130: "598046273873802902",
-		131: "598046273873802902",
-		136: "11803749423592941193",
-		137: "11803749423592941193",
-		138: "11803749423592941193",
-		139: "11803749423592941193",
-		144: "10187445671099294242",
-		145: "10187445671099294242",
-		146: "10187445671099294242",
-		147: "10187445671099294242",
-		152: "9604994527082705072",
-		153: "9604994527082705072",
-		154: "9604994527082705072",
-		155: "9604994527082705072",
-		160: "17466021589395472075",
-		161: "17466021589395472075",
-		162: "17466021589395472075",
-		163: "17466021589395472075",
-		168: "1044926823201815193",
-		169: "1044926823201815193",
-		170: "1044926823201815193",
-		171: "1044926823201815193",
-		176: "13372828617950681944",
-		177: "13372828617950681944",
-		178: "13372828617950681944",
-		179: "13372828617950681944",
-		184: "6576958293045616595",
-		185: "6576958293045616595",
-		186: "6576958293045616595",
-		187: "6576958293045616595"}
+		128: "0000:0a:00:0",
+		129: "0000:0a:00:0",
+		130: "0000:0a:00:0",
+		131: "0000:0a:00:0",
+		136: "0000:80:00:0",
+		137: "0000:80:00:0",
+		138: "0000:80:00:0",
+		139: "0000:80:00:0",
+		144: "0000:a4:00:0",
+		145: "0000:a4:00:0",
+		146: "0000:a4:00:0",
+		147: "0000:a4:00:0",
+		152: "0000:c8:00:0",
+		153: "0000:c8:00:0",
+		154: "0000:c8:00:0",
+		155: "0000:c8:00:0",
+		160: "0001:0b:00:0",
+		161: "0001:0b:00:0",
+		162: "0001:0b:00:0",
+		163: "0001:0b:00:0",
+		168: "0001:81:00:0",
+		169: "0001:81:00:0",
+		170: "0001:81:00:0",
+		171: "0001:81:00:0",
+		176: "0001:a5:00:0",
+		177: "0001:a5:00:0",
+		178: "0001:a5:00:0",
+		179: "0001:a5:00:0",
+		184: "0001:c9:00:0",
+		185: "0001:c9:00:0",
+		186: "0001:c9:00:0",
+		187: "0001:c9:00:0"}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(renderDevIds, expDevIds) {
 		val, _ := json.MarshalIndent(renderDevIds, "", "  ")
 		exp, _ := json.MarshalIndent(expDevIds, "", "  ")