Why AMD on an all-Intel laptop

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I am using an all-Intel i7 laptop running slowroll (KDE) installed fairly recently from a live USB and dup’ed frequently. Occasionally it crushes on initial start-up but works fine after re-start so I have ignored. But checking the trace of the latest crash I was surprised to see a reference to AMD. Previous report show similar:

                Stack trace of thread 2310:
                #0  0x00007f8f1c0a1c32 __syscall_cancel_arch (libc.so.6 + 0xa1c32)
                #1  0x00007f8f1c09581c __internal_syscall_cancel (libc.so.6 + 0x9581c)
                #2  0x00007f8f1c095fec __futex_abstimed_wait_common (libc.so.6 + 0x95fec)
                #3  0x00007f8f1c098a78 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libc.so.6 + 0x98a78)
                #4  0x00007f8f05b8b879 n/a (libgallium-25.0.5.so + 0x58b879)
                #5  0x00007f8f05b5749b n/a (libgallium-25.0.5.so + 0x55749b)
                #6  0x00007f8f05b8b7b7 n/a (libgallium-25.0.5.so + 0x58b7b7)
                #7  0x00007f8f1c099546 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x99546)
                #8  0x00007f8f1c11d94c __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x11d94c)
                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

The kernel-firmware-amdgpu and libdrm-amdgpu1 are installed but the laptop is all-Intel:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:5914] (rev 08)
        Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device [1558:1313]
        Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 [8086:5917] (rev 07)
        Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device [1558:1313]
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

Previous startup crash reports refer to gdb, plasmashell, brave, DiscoverNotifier but the final line reference to AMD repeats. So my questions are:

  1. Are the AMD modules necessary or why installed ?; and
  2. Are they connected to the start up crashes?.

[1] Not sure if relevant but the live USB was downloaded on a PC with Nvidia graphics card
[2] I had startup crashes when running Leap15.6 but never checked the crash reports

Regards

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Do you mean that? That’s not an AMD Module, it is the actual name of the architecture. x86-64 was created by AMD.

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Oh, sorry, my ignorance.
But then, why the amdgpu kernel module ?

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It is part of the kernel-firmware package set. There are even more firmware packages installed on your system even if you don’t have such hardware.
You can reduce the set of firmware packages by doing some cleanup.

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Because you installed them, either directly or they were pulled in by another package. It doesn’t matter either way.

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Ok, thanks @hui and @mhurron.

Regards

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