[oi-dev] OI HCL - AMD Laptops with RJ45 Port

[Stephan Althaus]

On 9/25/26 23:11, Atiq Rahman via oi-dev wrote:
> Happy Friday, everyone!
>
> A friendly nudge on this thread before I commit to a machine. I'm 
> planning
> to buy and dedicate a mobile workstation to OpenIndiana/illumos 
> development,
> and firsthand reports on recent or slightly older hardware would be a big
> help.
>
> My current machine has been less of a workstation and more of a lesson in
> patience: I haven't been able to get either the GUI or networking 
> working.
> I know accelerated AMD graphics is a separate challenge, but I'd 
> especially
> welcome reports on booting and wired Ethernet. Has anyone tried the P14s
> Gen 6 or Gen 7, or found another laptop that works well? If a small 
> desktop
> is the safer bet, I'd be glad to hear that too.
>
> Thanks, and have a good weekend!
>
> Cheers,
> Atiq
>
> On 9/20/26 14:41, Atiq Rahman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Or, is the suggestion to stick to desktop workstations for better
> > support e.g., ThinkCentre M75q Gen 5 Tiny (AMD) PC (has AMD Ryzen™ PRO
> > 8000 Series processors) ?
> >
> > Best,
> > Atiq
> >
> > On 9/19/26 18:05, Atiq Rahman wrote:
> >> Hi Joshua and list,
> >> It has been about a year since our last exchange on AMD desktop
> >> qualification. I hope everyone is doing well.
> >>
> >> I am looking to go the laptop route for greater portability and wanted
> >> to check how recent AMD hardware is currently looking under
> >> OpenIndiana and illumos.
> >>
> >> Specifically, I am evaluating these two models, both featuring native
> >> RJ-45 Ethernet ports:
> >> - ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 (14″ AMD)
> >> - ThinkPad P14s Gen 7 (14″ AMD)
> >>
> >> Between these two, would Gen 6 be expected to have better
> >> out-of-the-box stability on illumos than Gen 7? Keeping in mind our
> >> earlier discussion that DRM/accelerated graphics (amdgpu) is not yet
> >> supported in illumos and that the UEFI static framebuffer is the
> >> expected fallback, my main concern is reliable wired networking
> >> (e.g., rge(4D) for the onboard Realtek NIC), NVMe storage, and general
> >> ACPI/boot stability.
> >>
> >> Has anyone on the list had a chance to test either 
> machine—particularly
> >> the Gen 7 on a recent OpenIndiana release?
> >>
> >> If not, has anyone found other recent AMD laptops where the wired NIC
> >> works reliably on illumos? (I do not expect modern Wi-Fi to attach,
> >> though it would be a welcome bonus if it did.)
>
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Hi!

I have a DELL Precision 7720 XEON 32GB ECC RAM, 2 NVME, NVidia that is 
running out-of-the-box Openindiana.

TouchPanel doesn't work, and for wireless i have a 15€ USB stick, if i 
need it when i am somewhere else.

35-40 Watts running idle with display on though...


I had  another laptop running for some years as a home-server, that was 
a dell latitude 6510 8GB w/o ECC, SATA disk, some core i7 ...


Thats a lineup i personally would stick to: XEON baesd Laptops, HP, 
Dell, for example Dell Precision 7710, 7510, 7520, ...


Just my 2 Cents on this topic.

Regards,

Stephan