[LAU] AMD Raven Ridge

[Will Godfrey]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:47:16 -1000
"David W. Jones" <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

>On March 7, 2018 12:10:24 PM HST, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:07:08 +0000
>> dekks herton <dekkzz78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>> >On 03/04, Will Godfrey wrote:  
>> >>Does anyone have any information about these units with regard to  
>> use under  
>> >>Linux? I know they've only be out officially for a couple of weeks,  
>> but I'm  
>> >>wondering how helpful AMD have been, and how much of the GPU side is  
>> usable -  
>> >>if any.
>> >>    
>> >
>> >Get a 2018 MB with the latest chipsets and don't forget to update the  
>> BIOS every week till a 4.18 release kernel appears to get all the
>> bells and whistles to work.  
>> >  
>> 
>> In other circumstances I might go for that, but I need a new
>> *reliable* system
>> now.  
>
>Then I'd get one from a reliable manufacturer like ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI. They'll be good about passing on the Intel BIOS updates, vs lesser-known makers. My laptop came from a Linux boutique maker that has never offered a BIOS update.
>
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I have that covered. I'm in discussion with a builder who specialises in audio.
They have no experience with Linux, but are open to new ideas.

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Will J Godfrey
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Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.