How well is Ryzen+ (2700) running on CentOs 7.x?

[unseengundam101]

I am looking to build a new Ryzen based linux server. How well does CentOs working on them?

I have heard there some linux support problem with 2017 Ryzen release, I am hoping they are fully ironed out by now.

Thanks

 

[Hitman928]

I don't know about CentOS, but Redhat and Fedora support Ryzen just fine. The main thing is that support for Ryzen's boost states wasn't added until the 4.14 (I believe) Linux kernel. So you'll need to update the kernel to at least that version to get boost functionality if it isn't already there in CentOs.

*Note, I've never used CentOS so I'm not sure how they do the kernel. Redhat trails the latest kernels significantly but backports important features. I don't know if that's what CentOS does by default, but I do know you can update the CentOS kernal manually.

 

[mv2devnull]

CentOS is a rebuild of open RHEL code. Binary compatible. https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-4b2dd1ea6dcc1243d6e3886dc3e5d1ebb252c194

 

[ultimatebob]

I don't know about CentOS, but Redhat and Fedora support Ryzen just fine. The main thing is that support for Ryzen's boost states wasn't added until the 4.14 (I believe) Linux kernel. So you'll need to update the kernel to at least that version to get boost functionality if it isn't already there in CentOs.

*Note, I've never used CentOS so I'm not sure how they do the kernel. Redhat trails the latest kernels significantly but backports important features. I don't know if that's what CentOS does by default, but I do know you can update the CentOS kernal manually.

I think that RHEL7/CentOS7 use a 3.x kernel, so you would need to install the 4.x kernel from the EPEL repo if you wanted the full boost support.

Perhaps Red Hat backported it feature to their 3.x kernel... they are known for doing that.