Re: Hard kernel lock with gentoo-sources-6.18.18

Michael <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:25:03 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.user
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On Tuesday, 24 March 2026 20:23:40 Greenwich Mean Time Tsukasa 
Mcp_Reznor wrote:

> From: Michael
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2026 7:24 PM
> 
> >I thought AMDGPU is stable code for many years, or at least it has
> >been with my card:
> 
> Lol, pretty sure the amdgpu drivers are like 1/4th the size of the
> kernel, and they receive many many updates each kernel version,
> albeit most of it will be for adding features or supporting the
> latest and greatest.  With the shear scale of millions of lines of
> code, it's actually fairly common for numerous new bugs each release.

I must have been lucky, but yet again I don't do any gaming.  I have not 
had such a glitch before over numerous desktops and laptops with Radeon 
cards, well since the good ol' fglrx days.  ;-)


>  I've been rocking amd cards for decades exclusively, skipping a
> version here or there has always been worth it to me.  If you check
> out bugs.gentoo.org or use the kernels bug trackers, there will
> probably already be a report on it, if not, feel free to add one,  in
> the past I've been very impressed by gentoo's team, but this isn't a
> packaging or gentoo related bug most likely.  o7

Hmm ... you are right.  The kernel driver appears to have have had a 
turn for the worse :

https://community.frame.work/t/attn-critical-bugs-in-amdgpu-driver-included-with-kernel-6-18-x-6-19-x/79221

I tried 6.19.9 and it went sideways in the same manner.  :-(

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