Dear all
Will the upcoming Leap 42.3 since it will come with an old kernel completely support AMD Ryzen processors?
I would recommend Tumbleweed because you will need kernel 4.10 and higher for support.
AT this time Tumbleweed is using 4.11 and 4.12.
But what if you want a “LTS release”.
(btw Personaly I do not like bit.ly links, I like to see where I’m going)
Since I need the proprietary Nvidia driver Tumbleweed is not an option for me. I can really not understand why SuSE ships a new distro with an old kernel.
You can add the stable-kernels repo, and then install a kernel from there:
URL for repo - “http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/”
It currently has 4.12.3 available.
Go of Thumbleweed.
Install the necessary paches for compiling Nvidia’s drivers from file.run
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way
When you’ve finished blocking the kernel update, update it whenever you want
I’ve always done that
The kernel devs have backported a lot of patches from kernels 4.9 - 4.10 and maybe 4.11.
You can submit a bug report and request the patch for the AMD Ryzen processor.
It could already have been ported back to the Leap kernel. Ask them.
Here’s that link again for the kernel standard repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
He never mentioned if he’s using an Nvidia card. He’s using an AMD Ryzen processor.
He could be using an AMD graphics card so your second comment about using the Nvidia-Hard Way install is moot.
Comment n4
Since I need the proprietary Nvidia driver Tumbleweed is not an option for me. I can really not understand why SuSE ships a new distro with an old kernel.
Oops! Sorry my bad 
This is exactly what I recommend too, as from my experience with 42.2 + kernel 4.12 the OS performs flawlessly.
However the bitter taste from the new upgrade release cycle remains - it will be no surprise to me if for the next release 42.4 or whatever version follows Suse chooses the already old 4.11 kernel instead of forthcoming 4.14 at October, bundled of course with outdated versions of software. Suse has transformed the community and mostly desktop targeted openSuse into a server-purpose distro. Who needs this, really?
The rolling Tumbleweed is NOT the answer and cannot remedy the damage Suse has done to the former stable openSuse release model.
There will not be a 42.4.
The next version is 15(.0), and SLE 15 (and therefore Leap 15.0) will again be fully based on Tumbleweed (frozen at some point before the release of course).
I have no idea what kernel they will choose, but 4.11 is completely unlikely IMHO, as Tumbleweed has 4.12 now, and 4.11 is already EOL even.
I just checked with a user testing 42.3 on a AMD Ryzen and it works with 42.3 and default kernel 4.4.76-default.