Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-18 Thread Phil Manuel
Hi, At the time of testing support for the Ryzen CPU was added in February of this year. This kernel was used for testing.and we usually build them as rpm's. Regards Phil On Thu, 18 May 2017 at 22:24 Eugene Poole wrote: > I read somewhere that the PCIe issue is indicative of some other > hard

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-18 Thread Eugene Poole
I read somewhere that the PCIe issue is indicative of some other hardware (PCIe SSD; etc) not working correctly. Also, the 4.10 kernel is not the kernel out of the box. In a environment with 10 or more servers do you really want a custom kernel? How do you maintain all of these custom kernels

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-17 Thread Phil Manuel
Latency over PCIe is an issue with the new Ryzen chips/motherboards, the PCIe layout is different https://community.amd.com/thread/214078 On Thu, 18 May 2017 at 08:55 Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 17/05/17 04:34, Eugene Poole wrote: > > OK, AMD has announced it's new line of server and desktop pro

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 17/05/17 04:34, Eugene Poole wrote: > OK, AMD has announced it's new line of server and desktop processors. > What level of CentOS has been tested on them? OK then, when will CentOS > be tested on them? Or do we wait for Red Hat? > off the wire, I've had lots of positive reports from the new A

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-17 Thread William Warren
That is not a concern. Ryzen is already taking the desktop market by storm. Ryzen is not an Intel design. Intel excels in single threaded performance and does very well in multi-thread workloads. Ryzen so far is at least 20 percent faster in multi-thread loads at the same price level. Naples/Ry

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/16/2017 10:11 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: The same *may* be true of chipsets for AMD. I do not know, but would like to know. It's possible that it will install and boot but work better with drivers that Red Hat does not (yet) include in their kernel. Time will tell. I suspect if that is the c

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-16 Thread Alice Wonder
On 05/16/2017 09:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/16/2017 8:34 PM, Eugene Poole wrote: OK, AMD has announced it's new line of server and desktop processors. What level of CentOS has been tested on them? OK then, when will CentOS be tested on them? Or do we wait for Red Hat? If AMD's new CPUs a

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/16/2017 8:34 PM, Eugene Poole wrote: OK, AMD has announced it's new line of server and desktop processors. What level of CentOS has been tested on them? OK then, when will CentOS be tested on them? Or do we wait for Red Hat? If AMD's new CPUs aren't 100% compatible with existing software

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-16 Thread Digimer
On 16/05/17 11:34 PM, Eugene Poole wrote: > OK, AMD has announced it's new line of server and desktop processors. > What level of CentOS has been tested on them? OK then, when will CentOS > be tested on them? Or do we wait for Red Hat? CentOS is a binary compatible clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linu

[CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-16 Thread Eugene Poole
OK, AMD has announced it's new line of server and desktop processors. What level of CentOS has been tested on them? OK then, when will CentOS be tested on them? Or do we wait for Red Hat? -- Eugene Poole Woodstock, Georgia ___ CentOS mailing list Cen