Hi, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: > On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 15:00 +0100, Mick Ab wrote: >> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-linux-distros&num=1 >> >> The above article shows that Debian 10.0 will work with a third generation >> Ryzen CPU. >> >> I understood that the stable release of Buster had problems with such CPUs. >> Has the problem been overcome by installing appropriate AMD firmware ? Has >> the BIOS setting of the motherboard also played a part ? > > I don't the specifics, but new CPU models tend to work without specific > support in the kernel. The most critical model-specific setup is done > by the system firmware (BIOS). However, features such as power > management and performance monitoring may not work as well as with a > current kernel version. > > I believe the latest AMD *GPUs* won't work with Debian 10, though. > They require both new firmware and kernel driver changes (and possibly > user-space driver changes, but I don't know). > For AMD Navi, Mesa 19.2 (released sept 2019) is the oldest usable version. Imho it's time we provide a "hardware enablement" backport of the graphics stack, not only for users, but also to thank AMD for their new phase of GPL-friendly driver development. This will also require a backport of llvm-10-toolchain. The only thing I'm not sure about is if additional Xorg components would additionally need to be backported. I've CCed the backports list and the teams involved. Cheers, Nicholas
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