AMD Posts New CPUFreq Driver For CPPC Support With Zen 2 CPUs

[Twysock]

Awesome! I hope they work on better Linux support for all of their hardware. Intel's [ability to spend more money] is just so much better at this point.

Credit to Intel for what they do, but they have far more resources than AMD does.

[dungeon]

Great news, but it is really sad that it won't make it to 5.3 - means we'll have to wait about half a year to see any of this work.

Well, at least it could match next longterm kernel, which would likely be 5.4 ( you know, some users stick with that for 2-6 years )

Unlike Ubuntu non LTS or Fedora

[ernstp]

You're not going to benchmark this, are you.. ? :-)

[Sethox]

Great news, but it is really sad that it won't make it to 5.3 - means we'll have to wait about half a year to see any of this work.

Well that only means AMD gets more time for better code tuning, trial & error is a nice testing ground, but broken code sucks more.

[Venemo]

Great news, but it is really sad that it won't make it to 5.3 - means we'll have to wait about half a year to see any of this work.

Awesome! I hope they work on better Linux support for all of their hardware. Intel's software strategy is just so much better at this point.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Posts New CPUFreq Driver For CPPC Support With Zen 2 CPUs

AMD Zen 2 CPUs support ACPI's Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) for tuning the system to energy and/or performance requirements. AMD has now published a new CPUfreq driver for handling their CPPC implementation and the new controls found with their new processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-New-CPUFreq-CPPC