On 01/06/2025 22:11, Bret Busby wrote:
Rather than gatekeeping the knowledge (you seem to be implying that you know whether some AMD Ryzen processors are supported, but you're not willing to share that knowledge unless the OP successfully guesses the name of a supported CPU), here is the Gentoo page showing AMD Ryzen support: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ryzen. This shows that most Ryzen processors have been supported since about Kernel version 5.10 (i.e. Bullseye).On 2/6/25 04:18, Chris Green wrote:I understand that you asked not which chips are supported, but, are particular chips supported.Marco Moock <m...@dorfdsl.de> wrote:On 01.06.2025 12:30 Uhr Chris Green wrote:Up until now I have always stayed with Intel CPU and Intel Graphics because of the solid Linux support but the alternative AMD Ryzen processors on the T14/P14 seem attractive. Is support for these pretty solid now? (Thay have been around for quite a while!)Specify which chip you have. Newer ones are not supported in older kernels. Running sid should be fine.I don't **have** any 'chips', I'm asking which have reliable support."AMD Ryzen processors on the T14/P14 seem attractive. Is support for these pretty solid now?"Perhaps, you should have specified which particular AMD chipsets feature in the particular computers, for which you want to find whether support is provided.
Bear in mind that Gentoo is not Debian, but they share the same Kernel. It's certainly possible that the stock Debian kernel might cause some issues (because Debian pick a broad selection of kernel options, but not all, whereas Gentoo tends to favour self-compiled kernels), but in the worst case, Debian *does* support self-compiled kernels.
Additionally, here is the ArchWiki page on Ryzen CPUs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ryzen. Archwiki tends more towards the "bleeding edge" - for example you may find that some of those tools mentioned there aren't packaged for Debian, but they're usually cloneable from a Git Repo if they seem interesting to you.
Lastly, as you may know, it was Debian's decision to call the 64-bit architecture that most PCs use "amd64" to honour the fact that this version was originated at AMD (Intel's attempt was the Itanium architecture which failed commercially). So Debian has a history of focussing on AMD processors. If there was a major problem it would certainly have got fixed in time for a stable release.
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