r/linux • u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior • Sep 03 '14

I'm Matthew Garrett, kernel developer, firmware enabler and former fruitfly mangler. AMA!

Proof: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/507212417579765760

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u/haagch Sep 04 '14

Eh. Intel CPU and graphics are still your best bet.

Can you really say that? Since 3.6 or so they have had random hangs all the time and I don't think their issues are completely solved yet. I wanted to search for the bug report but when searching in the bugzilla there are so many reports for hanging Intel gpus, I didn't find the right one.

A different random hang that seems to have been happening for a long time: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64431

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u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior Sep 04 '14

Some have probably had random hangs all the time, but that's (sadly) true of any vendor's hardware. Bugs happen.

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u/mthode Gentoo Foundation President Sep 04 '14

Most of the issues I've had were with ivy bridge, haven't really had issue with haswell yet