On Wednesday 18 March 2020 at 22:02:08, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 06:24:27PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > > Does anyone here have experience of running Devuan on AMD Ryzen CPUs? > > > > I'm just planning to get a new PC, and I've generally preferred AMD to > > Intel, so just wondering whether there's anything I need to look out for > > with pretty much the latest hardware. > > Yes: > > 1. Upgrade your kernel to 4.10 or later. If you install the kernel > from Beowulf-backports, that should be good enough.
That doesn't sound like a problem, since my main purpose here is to "get up to date" again with a current system, both hardware and software. I leave it too long between upgrades :) > 2. There is the linux ryzen crash. Type that into your favorite > search engine, and you'll get a whole bunch of info on it. Here's a > good page from those results: > > <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683> Wow. Lots of reading there (never mind finding other results too). Thanks for that, and for the suggestions to deal with this: > 3. There was a problem with the VME implementation on ryzen, which has > since been fixed: > > <http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-fixed-on-amd-ryzen/> > > That's all I can think of for now. You might want to check the > wikipedia ryzen page in case I forgot something. Thanks for taking the time - gives me plenty to consider :) Antony. -- Numerous psychological studies over the years have demonstrated that the majority of people genuinely believe they are not like the majority of people. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng