AMD Raven Ridge support on Linux is still poor

Posted on Monday, February 19 2018 @ 20:44 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Linux tech site Phoronix reports AMD's new Raven Ridge APUs are still not recommended for Linux users. Michael Larabel tested various motherboards and discovered that despite all the work from open-source AMD developers, the launch support is still really bad. This ranges from boot and stability issues to hang up within games.

Interestingly, some motherboards fare worse than others. Larabel speculates some issues may be caused by differences between the pre-production and the final launch hardware/software:

Open-source AMD developers have been working on the Raven Ridge support going back to last year and all. Thus I'm thinking some motherboard vendors with their BIOS updates changed some behavior adversely affecting the Linux driver support and/or the pre-production bring-up of Raven with the Linux driver stack is a lot different than what ended up being with the production hardware/BIOS... Perhaps this is why AMD hadn't offered any review samples this time around for our Linux testing or even briefed on the launch.

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