A rant about AMD things. Recently, I’ve been developing in a Linux environment and encountered a frustrating issue: the critical parameters like per-core temperature and power of AMD processors simply cannot be read. It’s really maddening.

At first, I planned to tough it out and write my own solution, but later I simply asked AI to generate a set of solutions. After the code was generated, the problems arose—discovering that each CPU’s PM Table configuration is different, which means a universal solution is impossible.

One pitfall after another began to appear. Sometimes it’s driver compatibility issues, sometimes it’s BIOS black box settings. Through the troubleshooting process, I realized that AMD’s documentation support in this area is indeed lacking, and the Linux ecosystem’s adaptation is still in the exploratory stage.

Now I finally understand why so many developers have opinions about this. But from another perspective, these challenges can also be considered part of the technical adventure.