Hi. I’m looking to build a new gaming PC based around Ryzen 2700X. I’m currently considering AMD Vega 56 GPU as well. I will be doing gaming in linux directly as well as IOMMU passthru. I’m looking for motherboard and RAM recommendations as well as update on Linux support.
Is SenseMI supported in Linux? How are the graphics drivers? If you look at what is available to download on AMD’s website, it requires Ubuntu 16.04, CentOS, RHEL, or SLES, which is odd, to say the least. Is Ubuntu 18.04 supported yet? I would like to use the open source drivers if they are close to the proprietary ones, but I’m ok with using AMDGPU PRO.
You don’t need the pro drivers. Any up to date distros comes with and driver support build in via amdgpu. You do need to have a distro that has a new kernel 4.15+ I’d recommend. Probably more like 4.16+.
I’ve not done any testing yet but my system works fine ootb on feodra 28 and have had no issues so far. I’ve not done any game testing yet though.
I have a 2700x and Vega 64 GPU on a Asus hero vii x470 motherboard. (Wendel also mentioned some stuff about iommu on this board. @wendell?)
Here is what I’m thinking. I’m mostly looking for guidance on the motherboards, since I don’t know much about IOMMU on these, and I am looking to do that.
Wendell mentioned the Asus Crosshair Hero VII having proper IOMMU support, that’s a quite high end board, I’d try figure out before purchase, what other Asus boards that aren’t that expensive feature similar features regarding the IOMMU implementation.