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Date:      Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:33:27 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Hannes Hauswedell <h2+lists2018@fsfe.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Current status of Ryzen (non-)support
Message-ID:  <20181021173327.GJ5335@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <632587eb-2c27-2e7f-2571-25c06025cd80@fsfe.org>
References:  <632587eb-2c27-2e7f-2571-25c06025cd80@fsfe.org>

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On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 06:09:50PM +0200, Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wanted to ask what the current status of Ryzen support is and/or
> whether any new changes are planned.
> 
> My situation:
> * second generation Ryzen: 2600X
> * running -CURRENT
> * I have done the things described here:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-June/069799.html
This was based on the public errata document for the first gen ryzen.
I am not aware of the erratas ('revision guides' in AMD terminology)
for the second gen ryzens.

For now you can only get fixes for microcode from your BIOS updates.

> * no full system freezes, but under load, e.g. building with 12 threads,
> programs start to segfault.
> * memtest86 ran through without issues
> * on a Linux dual boot I haven't had any issues
Or look at the Linux sources and see if any workarounds are applied
and chicken bits are set for your CPU.

> 
> Is this a known problem? Anythings I can do about it? I thought the
> Ryzen problem were only supposed to happen with first generation CPUs...
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Hannes
> 






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