Gian-Carlo Pascutto (gcp.delete@this.sjeng.org) on August 14, 2019 1:33 am wrote:
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> I look forward to reading a rant about the current state of AMD's BIOSes and memory
> support though. (Goes on to RMA some DDR4 because it won't boot in his 3900X...)
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> GCP


This time the AMD CPUs are in a much better shape immediately after launch, so such rants are much less likely than in 2017.


While in 2017 the first Ryzen was not able to even compile gcc without errors, now we have reports that e.g. a Ryzen 9 3900X can compile the entire DragonFlyBSD distribution with all its packages in a little bit more than 24 hours, without any issues, or that an (expensive) EPYC 2 server can compile the Linux kernel in 16 seconds, LLVM in 82 seconds and the complete gcc with all languages in 730 seconds, also without any problems (see at Phoronix).


Even if there were a few problems with the software compatibility, e.g. with RDRAND and with the initialization of the segment registers after reset, I have not heard yet about any hardware problems.