Comment 221 for bug 1690085

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In , fin4478 (fin4478-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to Panagiotis Malakoudis from comment #131)
> (In reply to fin4478 from comment #130)
> > Ryzen cpus manufactured before week 20 or so have the segfault problem with
> > high stress compilation that average users are not doing. You get a new cpu
> > Amd after submitting RMA.
> >
>
> This is not true, processors from week 28 have also segfault problem.
>

I did not check what phoronix wrote. You can have a new Ryzen cpu anyway if you are compiling Mesa and having the segfault problem.

To me, as a Computer Engineer, this is a hardware issue, much
> like the segfault issue. It doesn't seem to occur under Windows, and it
> hides itself with rcuo threads enabled.

I am Msc software engineer and when you say win virus hoover does not have random lockups, then it is a software problem made by wintel kernel developers. Intel develops Linux core and test only with their latest hardware.