<story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>I really hope they hire more people to work on the Linux GPU drivers, and have the drivers ready and stable on launch, and not years later.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve experienced the following issues on my laptop (Dell G5 SE):&lt;p&gt;* Crashes on suspend&amp;#x2F;resume. [1]&lt;p&gt;* Kernel warning on boot [2]&lt;p&gt;* It crashes for me without amdgpu.runpm=0 kernel config [3] (fixed?)&lt;p&gt;* Crashes when inserting and removing USB-C monitor (fixed?)&lt;p&gt;* The onboard GPU works, but the dedicated GPU crashes with vsync. (didn&amp;#x27;t test recently)&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1222&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1222&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;912&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;912&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1304&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1304&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickserv</author><text>My driver experience has been overwhelmingly positive, but I do tend to run older (cheaper) chipsets.&lt;p&gt;On my work computer with a Ryzen 7 &amp;quot;Renoir&amp;quot; GPU the problem was not the drivers but the fact that the latest Ubuntu LTS ships with an older kernel, so having to run latest mainline.&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling this sort of situation will become more and more problematic, especially when new architectures are released. Somewhere the Linux community may have to step up for more easily having recent kernels.</text></comment>
<story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>I really hope they hire more people to work on the Linux GPU drivers, and have the drivers ready and stable on launch, and not years later.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve experienced the following issues on my laptop (Dell G5 SE):&lt;p&gt;* Crashes on suspend&amp;#x2F;resume. [1]&lt;p&gt;* Kernel warning on boot [2]&lt;p&gt;* It crashes for me without amdgpu.runpm=0 kernel config [3] (fixed?)&lt;p&gt;* Crashes when inserting and removing USB-C monitor (fixed?)&lt;p&gt;* The onboard GPU works, but the dedicated GPU crashes with vsync. (didn&amp;#x27;t test recently)&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1222&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1222&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;912&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;912&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1304&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;drm&amp;#x2F;amd&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;1304&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>offtop5</author><text>Most of the money spent here it&amp;#x27;s probably going to help server side Linux which is a much bigger market. But I&amp;#x27;m just as optimistic as you</text></comment>