On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:50:01 +0100, Janis Hamme wrote: > Now that AMD's Ryzen CPUs have been released, I'm wondering if they'll > be supported by the upcoming Debian Stretch release. I'm a bit concerned > as Stretch comes with Kernel 3.9 but Ryzen support was added to 4.10. > > Is Debian known to backport hardware support from newer kernel versions? > Otherwise a custom or backports kernel would be required from the start. > Ryzen CPUs could become quite popular during the lifespan of Debian > Strech. It seems to perform fine for Linux applications so far: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-1800x-linux&num=1 > > Regards > Janis
It's a common occurrence (but hard to predict). Example: the current stable Debian can use a backported kernel (I'm doing this on my home desktop).
