Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org> wrote:
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>
> Has anyone had problems with the latest kernel
> download, (68)?
>
> It said to reboot it, and then refused to reboot.
> looked like the same thing that happened when I
> attempted to upgrade, and then install to 14.04.
>
> I'm getting kinda tired of having to continuously
> re-install 10.04 because of all the crap comming
> down.

I know (at least on Opteron systems) that amd64-microcode was not
available on 14.04 until recently.

This would explain a lot of problems.