Linux 5.4 Is Big For AMD Radeon Users From New GPU Support To Slightly Faster Performance

[betam4x]

With 5.4 being a longterm kernel i do think the last longterm kernel be included.
I miss kernel 4.19.

I'm glad you said 4.19 and not 4.18!

I believe it was 4.18 had a bug where it waited on a particular feature on Threadripper, but the idiot who wrote the code didn't add a timeout. The feature wasn't present, so weeeeee...It was whatever the kernel was that was installed on Ubuntu 18.10 I believe. You'd have to drop into single user mode, enable networking, and grab a new kernel from Ubuntu's mainline kernels site.

[betam4x]

I'm looking forward to the proton crash issue with 3000 series Ryzen (clearcpuid 514 was a workaround), and also finally Zen2 temp monitoring built in. ( I could never get that github zenpower thing to work, not once).

Did you try lmsensors? Just curious.

[theriddick]

I think I have only tried this:

https://github.com/ocerman/zenpower

Don't know much about upstream k10temp or lmsensors,
I don't even know howto add those particular upstream packages for Pop_OS 19.10.

[barti_ddu]

Don't know much about upstream k10temp or lmsensors,
I don't even know howto add those particular upstream packages for Pop_OS 19.10.

There is no such thing as "upstream packages" in this case, You have to use brute force

git clone https://github.com/groeck/k10temp.git
cd k10temp
make
make install

And then either rmmod exising k10temp module & modprobe it again or reboot. You may also want to backup Your original k10temp.ko before that, just in case.

lmsensors won't do unless Your motherboard does report T_die temperature (very unlikely).

[theriddick]

I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Thought apparently 5.4 comes out on Sunday so not long to wait. Thanks

[pete910]

There is no such thing as "upstream packages" in this case, You have to use brute force

git clone https://github.com/groeck/k10temp.git
cd k10temp
make
make install

And then either rmmod exising k10temp module & modprobe it again or reboot. You may also want to backup Your original k10temp.ko before that, just in case.

lmsensors won't do unless Your motherboard does report T_die temperature (very unlikely).

This is the output of lmsesnors with K10tmp for me, shows Tdie and Tctl

Adapter: PCI adapter
Tdie: +33.0°C (high = +70.0°C)
Tctl: +33.0°C

[pete910]

I'm looking forward to the proton crash issue with 3000 series Ryzen (clearcpuid 514 was a workaround), and also finally Zen2 temp monitoring built in. ( I could never get that github zenpower thing to work, not once).

Never come across that, is it game dependant ?

[theriddick]

Never come across that, is it game dependant ?

Yeah its proton games mostly from what I can tell. I did have some odd system freezes with my 3600 without it.
Still not 100% sure its resolved the problem completely by using that workaround because some odd things have happened still (plasma desktop freezes etc). But less frequent.

[microcode]

Good to see the high percentile frametimes coming down.

[barti_ddu]

This is the output of lmsesnors with K10tmp for me, shows Tdie and Tctl

Yes, with proper k10temp lmsensors will report T_die temperatures, but highly likely won't without it (unless motherboard sensor exposes it).