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).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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