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It's not processors themselves that are an issue usually. Usually the difficulties in getting things running is the booting the system, and the motherboard chi
by DCKing 9y ago
It's not processors themselves that are an issue usually.
Usually the difficulties in getting things running is the booting the system, and the motherboard chipset and device drivers. It's also to do with the stuff that goes along with just "running" but CPU features. Does power management work well? Does ECC work at all? Is virtualization relatively bug free?
Since laptops are full computers packed with all hardware inside, you don't want any driver issues on your system and neither do you want power management issues. That's usually what people mean when they express concerns about new CPU platforms and Linux.
From what I've heard Ryzen runs Linux pretty well on desktops at least, so let's hope they can keep up the good work on laptops too.
- rlonstein 9y ago> From what I've heard Ryzen runs Linux pretty well on desktops Confirmed. I'm running one here-- 1700 (8c/16t), no-OC, stock cooler, X370 chipset and Samsung-based DDR4-3200 RAM-- on Ubuntu Xenial/Elementary and it's been rock solid and temps <50C doing desktop, development, and VM's.
- noir_lord 9y agoSame, 1700, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance at 2666, 4 weeks not a single problem and I've battered it, was transcoding 30,000 multiple page tiffs yesterday (don't ask..). The thing is a straight out monster for a 300 quid processor.
- mkl 9y ago> transcoding 30,000 multiple page tiffs yesterday Um, I have to ask. The only thing I've used multipage TIFFs for is turning processed page scans into a PDF. But not nearly that scale. What was the context?
- noir_lord 9y agoExactly that for an enterprise web app that attached all the physical paperwork of an order to the digital record. Original dev just shoved all 30,000 in the webroot as multipage tiffs, average size 25Mb-30Mb. End users couldn't easily view attached scans (multipage tiff isn't that prevalent), converting to pdf with jpeg compression took the first set from 76.8Gb to 6Gb with far less traffic on the network and much easier handling (PDF is far better supported).
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoRyzen, Ryzen Threadripper and Epyc are all the exact same chip, the latter just use MCMs with 2 and 4 dies respectively. Epyc being for for the datacentre, it needs good Linux compatibility, so AMD have already submitted the necessary kernel patches. I imagine that means Ryzen will work well too, at least for the portion of the chipset inside the CPU.