Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>
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>>> Has anyone had problems with the latest kernel
>>> download, (68)?
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>>> 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.
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>>> I'm getting kinda tired of having to continuously
>>> re-install 10.04 because of all the crap comming
>>> down.
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>> I know (at least on Opteron systems) that amd64-microcode was not
>> available on 14.04 until recently.
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>> This would explain a lot of problems.
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> That could be, but what about 32 bit machines?

That package only contains microcode, it is not tied to 64 bits OS.

As for *old* 32 bits machines (that didn't support 64 bits OS): I have
no idea, I have not touched a server with such a CPU in *years*.