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How is Current with the latest generation of Ryzens?

I'm browsing around this forum looking for a consensus conclusion about Ryzen support in Current. Lots to dig through. I thought perhaps the question would be better handled in a new thread.

Some time ago I asked about Ryzens but so much has changed since then and Slackware 15 is not officially released anyway. I'm not hard core but I prefer on-board graphics. If I have to buy a discrete card then I don't want anything that will look like or sound like a jet engine. I'm not into gaming or high-end 3D or CAD.

Thanks. :)

Edit: I'm not ready to shop for a new desktop or laptop until after 15 is released. For the laptop new Ryzen support might not be critical as likely I would buy refurbished.

I would also be interested in how is this supported as I am slowly planning a Ryzen7 laptop.

Apparently there has been some problems with the Threadripper series.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...00-MCE-5.5-Fix

My ryzen5 3600 zen 2 runs like a champ in current... No issues at all

This is for the 3rd generation Threadripper, 2nd is fine. Mind you after paying up to $3,000 for a 3970X you would be sweating a little with such a failure to boot :).

Edit: nevermind!

I'm running a 1st Gen Ryzen 7 on my desktop with 14.2 (currently using a self-compiled 5.3.12 kernel, but will be moving to 5.4.x sometime *soon*) and I have a Ryzen 3 2200G APU (I think it is a 2nd gen in the Zen1 series, but I'm not really keeping track.) in my HTPC running a -current build from May with no problems. That is using the integrated GPU for video acceleration and I don't have problems playing any videos (I don't game on that at all). Anything that's already released should have support by the time 15.0 is released since its support should already be included in the 5.4 kernel (and in the case of the Threadripper issue linked above, I imagine that fix will be backported to the 5.4 series by the time 15.0 is released).

I've heard they're coming out with some higher end APUs at least for laptops in the next few months. I'm not sure if they'll be available for purchase to put in a self-built machine or if they'll only be offered to manufacturers, but I think I was reading they'll have 8 cores/16 threads along with a higher powered on-die GPU. If they are released this winter, it is likely that support in mesa and the kernel will be relatively quick. Mesa will probably be updated within Slackware to include support before 15.0 is released, but the kernel might lag behind if Pat sticks with an LTS release and if 15.0 is released sometime this next year (before the next LTS is announced at the end of 2020). In that case, you might just need to compile your own kernel for proper support, but I imagine most, if not all, of the rest of the OS will be capable of supporting those chips.

Slackware64-current with kernel 5.4.5+ is excellent on current Ryzen systems. I just built a mini-ITX and just need to find a newer AMD GPU in ITX form factor that fits. I have a Nvidia GTX 950 and GTX 1060 that fit, but I really want to kick Nvidia to thr curb and use amdgpu.

Performance and stability is amazing. The only glitch is motherboard enumerated fan speeds due to an ITE sensor chip not supported in the kernel. The NCT chips used by some others are a-ok. Here is some initial information:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6070299

http://www.linuxgalaxy.org

Based on helpful replies in this thread and the Ryzen Motherboard thread, I'm tagging this thread as solved. :)

Admittedly, if you do have the money to drop on one, looks like mce=off at boot will work around the issue until things are fixed.