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Old 06-03-2020, 09:36 AM   #1
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Motherboard and Buster


Various reports have led me to believe that third generation AMD Ryzen CPUs will work okay with the stable release
of Buster, so I am trying to arrange the build of a desktop with the stable release of Buster as the operating system.

I aim to use the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 as the CPU and the MSI X570-A PRO as the motherboard.

However i was recently given the following information by an MSI user about the MSI X570-A PRO :-

"See the following link :-

https://community.amd.com/servlet/ji...I_X570-PRO.png. png
As you can see, according to the above link, the BIOS offered by MSI is still Beta, not the final version of
AGESA 1.0.0.5

AGESA 1.0.0.6 is usually the final version that ends the cycle for every Ryzen generation so its a reference
approach has been so for 1st and 2nd Ryzen generations) offering stability regardless of using 2000 or
3000 series.

Also the BIOS should be flashed to AGESA 1.0.0.6 end of 2018 by the seller before the computer is bought"

I have further been informed that the X570 board and Ryzen 3000 series came out about the same time asthe stable release of Buster I.e. July 2019

As mentioned at the beginning of this email, various reports have convinced me that the Ryzen 5 3600 CPU
will work okay with the stable release of Buster. But the MSI X570-A PRO motherboard and its BIOS may have
a serious issue with Buster. Indeed the motherboard may fail to boot.

So I am rather concerned about the stability offered by the BIOS on the MSI X570-A PRO motherboard.
 
Old 06-03-2020, 11:24 AM   #2
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I have an x570 mobo (asus) and it could update its own bios without booting debian/windows/whatever. I don't know if that MSI mobo can do that too.
By the way the link you posted does not work.
 
Old 06-04-2020, 03:55 AM   #3
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debianlearner,

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But the MSI X570-A PRO motherboard and its BIOS may have a serious issue with Buster. Indeed the motherboard may fail to boot.
I really think that you are overdoing the forensic analysis of motherboard BIOS and AGESA variations vis-a-vis Debian.

For example, the MSI X570 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard works fine with Debian 10 and various Ubuntu OSs, provided that the correct SATA ports (1 to 4) are used.

Extract from reply #15 on:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=324789.0


Quote:
After two days of headache I found the root cause and fixed it.
This motherboard came - according to the official website - with two SATA chipsets:
AMD x570: 4x SATA 6Gb/s ports(SATA1-SATA4)
AMS 1061: 2x SATA 6Gb/s ports (SATA5, SATA6)
However the 1061 chipset looks buggy (or with minimum compatibility) and it does not support many devices.
The compatibility devices list confirm it:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/supp...I#support-test

Now, attaching a device not compatible (almost anything that is not a HD/SSD) on port SATA5 and SATA6 will get stuck the full ACHI/SATA bus (from SATA1 to SATA6) with the "AHCI controller unavailable" (usually at boot, but it can be also later on for hot plug devices).
Workaround: detach the not-compatible SATA device or try to attach that on port SATA1-SATA4 (AMD chipset).
BIOS settings does not influence this behavior (with or without UEFI/SMC), and crappy SATA cables neither..

I have tested this with the motherboard in subject, using latest firmware 7B93v15 (v1.5) on:
debian buster (kernel 4.19.0) - with or without the proprietary firmware
ubuntu 19.10 (kernel 5.3)
ubuntu 18.04 LTS (kernel 5.0).
 
Old 06-04-2020, 05:08 AM   #4
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Well, linux-hardware.org is a good place for answering this sort of question. For MSI X570-A PRO, see this.
 
  


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