Linux Could Experience Unexpected System Reboots When Pairing AMD Ryzen With Firewire
Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 5 January 2024 at 04:15 PM EST.
In the land of odd hardware bugs and interesting Linux kernel behavior, a fix was merged today for Linux 6.7 and to be back-ported to existing stable kernel series for dealing with a situation where unexpected system reboots could happen primarily on AMD Ryzen systems when using Firewire (IEEE-1394).
Firewire thankfully hasn’t been common in years and would be a rather niche digital video and/or audio hardware setup to be using Firewire with a modern AMD Ryzen system, but in any event such a combination has been causing problems for Linux users with unexpected reboots when plugging in a Firewire device or similar.
