At least this is less bad than when I got a Broadwell i7 5700hq laptop last year and the microcode-based TSX issues were so bad I could only boot Fedora 22 for a month stably (it would crash under any load) until MSI (the ones I bought it from) were the first out with a fixed microcode update.
Funny you should mention -- my Sager work laptop has an i7-5700HQ, and Fedora 22 runs fine on it, but 23 crashes within seconds to minutes. For now I'm just continuing to run F22, but I also can't run any VMs or containers that contain a libc that tickles the TSX issue or my laptop reboots!
Eventually I'll have to buckle down and figure out how to apply one of the firmware updates floating around out there that supposedly fix this (I think actually the one most commonly used came from MSI's updater), because neither Sager nor Clevo (the hardware OEM) has put out any firmware updates for it, and I don't want to be stuck running F22 past its end-of-support.
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Re: Actually been fixed.
Date: 2016-04-15 07:38 pm (UTC)Funny you should mention -- my Sager work laptop has an i7-5700HQ, and Fedora 22 runs fine on it, but 23 crashes within seconds to minutes. For now I'm just continuing to run F22, but I also can't run any VMs or containers that contain a libc that tickles the TSX issue or my laptop reboots!
Eventually I'll have to buckle down and figure out how to apply one of the firmware updates floating around out there that supposedly fix this (I think actually the one most commonly used came from MSI's updater), because neither Sager nor Clevo (the hardware OEM) has put out any firmware updates for it, and I don't want to be stuck running F22 past its end-of-support.