Re: Hard kernel lock with gentoo-sources-6.18.18

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 24 March 2026 20:23:40 Greenwich Mean Time Tsukasa
> Mcp_Reznor wrote:
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> > 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 :
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> https://community.frame.work/t/attn-critical-bugs-in-amdgpu-driver-included-with-kernel-6-18-x-6-19-x/79221
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> I tried 6.19.9 and it went sideways in the same manner.  :-(

Hm. I'm run 6.18.12 without issue right now, and my next reboot will
be for 6.18.18.

I have an AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S from Framework; I
suppose I might have misunderstood what we mean by "amdgpu" but things
seem smooth here.

-- 
D. Ben Knoble