Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 01:22 -0400, Clay Weber wrote:
> Are we starting to confuse amd64 (64 bit) - the cpu architecture with 
> AMD the cpu/gpu company and products? 
> 
> it is highly unlikely that 64 bit architecture and the cpus running it
> (from both Intel and AMD) are specific reasons for bugginess.
> Possible, yes, but unlikely.

It's unlikely for a vanilla kernel from upstream or the
"normal"/"desktop" kernel provided by a major distro, but it easily
could cause trouble, if you use patched kernels. The current RT patches
are known to cause issues for AMD based computers. CPU?, graphics?, mobo
chip sets? ... what ever does cause the issues, at the moment there are
more serious issues for computers with AMD CPUs, than for computers with
Intel CPUs, when using RT patched kernels.

There are other kernel patches too and perhaps one or the other distro
enables experimental options even for vanilla kernels, that could cause
problems on some machines.