On 27-12-2021 18:54, Antony Stone wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Disclaimer: I generally don't like people saying things like "I read somewhere
> that..." without backing up what they're talking about, but...
>
> I'm sure I've read somewhere (and not especially recently) that Linux on AMD
> Ryzen CPUs can be unreliable and/or surprisingly poor performance.
>
> Can anyone comment on current (eg: Beowulf / Chimaera with standard kernels)
> operation on such machines?
>
> If it matters, I'm looking at desktop / tower / server motherboards and not
> laptops, and I don't care two hoots about graphics - this would be for
> networked machines accessed exclusively remotely.
>
> Any opinions from personal experience, or pointers to reliable data, on the
> topic would be appreciated :)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Antony.
>
One of my systems is a early build with a AMD 2400G a few years ago
which had some graphics issues with X. One kernel later and manually
added AMD APU firmware from kernel.org for the graphics part and
everything runs smoothly ever since.

Grtz,

Nick