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AMD Ryzen Powered Framework Laptop Linux Testing Held Up By BIOS Issue (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

There's one of the AMD Framework laptops in the lab for Linux testing and benchmarking but unfortunately no review for launch day due to being held up by a BIOS regression and thus unable to properly utilize accelerated graphics until a new BIOS revision is made available in the coming days.

After installing an Ubuntu 23.10 snapshot to the device, there was no working desktop and when connecting via a VT, there were AMDGPU issues.

A pre-6.5 kernel can be booted with the regressed BIOS to a working desktop but will be producing AMDGPU errors.

In any event once the BIOS issue is addressed, it should be fun to see how well the AMD Ryzen powered Framework laptop works under Linux and the same level of upgradeability seen from the prior Intel model.

Those interested can see my prior Ryzen 7 7840U Linux benchmarks from an Acer Swift Edge 16 if wanting an immediate idea over the performance capabilities of this Zen 4 laptop processor.

Long story short, in a week or two should be the Linux review and benchmarks for the new AMD Framework Laptop.

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