The linux-cachyos-rc kernel is more or less it its final version and we can start the testing for the upcoming major release.
There kernel is already tested internally in the team and it is looking in a great spot, some highlights added from our side:
amd-pstate cpb boost is now included with the latest patchset, this can be controlled via powerdevil/power-profiles-daemon. Setting it to power-save, will disable boost. This can majorly improve the temperature on laptops
Crypto Patches for Dynamic avx10/avx512/avx2 got updated to latest
Besides that all patches, which are carried in 6.9 are also included in 6.10.
Upstram Major changes are:
Filesystem improvements
Steam Deck IMU support
EEVDF Scheduler improvements
ROCm improvements on APUâs
Pending is currently the intel-pstate patches, which will handle the P/E Core handling - sadly I did not got much input yet from intel users.
In case that anyone wants to test them, they can be found here:
You can install and test the kernel with following command:
Iâm getting some heavy display corruption with this kernel (everything is fine with 6.9).
AMD gpu + zen4 on default KDE with wayland, cachyos mesa-git: moving the mouse and windows corrupts the display. When nothing is moving everything is fine.
The screen corruption also happens during system shutdown and boot up (on the terminal tty). â every time something is moving the corruption appears.
Yes, this is cachyos-bugreport.sh just after kde login in the kde terminal, while the issue is happening (it is always constantly happening. The 1/6 top of the screen is flickering and completely corrupted. 5/6 of the screen below this is fine).
The linux-cachyos-6.10 release kernel is still broken on several amd 6000 series cards (6750, 6900,âŚ) with severe display corruption making the system unusable.
Why have you knowingly/willingly manually pushed it (seeing as arch doesnât even have it in testing yet) without even reverting the commit that broke it?
Because people can just hold/use the archive. Just because RDNA2 has issues, it should be not blocked for other configuration.
Also, we never block a kernel as long their is no heavy regression in terms of not bootable, segfaults or equal. Upstream needs to fix this, but since their is no activity seen there is no reason to wait.
If we care about every hardware issues, then we can never push a kernel and need to stick to and long term lts, like 6.1
Iâm very disappointed to hear that cachyos is not a solid stable os for people to get work done, but just a gimmick playground for geeks to play around with.
You KNOWINGLY ship a BROKEN kernel on one of the major gpus, and expect users to spend their time troubleshooting and fix config files, etcâŚ
It works for YOU on YOUR hardware, so you donât give a flying fuck about your users.
What a joke of a distro this now is.
And what is SO URGENT that you needs to shit this broken kernel so fast? Also, you could have reverted the patch that corrupts the display.
I have sent many people over to cachyos, but now, as people trust me when I recommend them something, I for sure wonât be able to recommend cachyos to anyone anymore.
