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I'm looking at dmesg output which on my Intel CPUS of various vintages shows |
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"microcode updated early ..." but two different AMD APUs of mine do not show |
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the same, despite AMD apparently releasing microcode updates going back to |
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2011: |
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/amd-releases-spectre-v2-microcode-updates-for-cpus-going-back-to-2011/ |
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I have observed OEMs for laptop MoBos rarely if ever bother to release a UEFI/ |
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BIOS firmware update past 1-2 years from launch of their products, while |
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desktop OEMs may keep releasing updates for 3-5 years. |
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Since there are no OEM MoBo firmware releases and I see no "microcode updated |
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early ..." message in dmesg, I thought of checking with other Gentoo users if |
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I'm doing something wrong, or if this is a common observation for AMD CPU/ |
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APUs? |
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PS. I include the microcode in the kernel, for both my Intel and AMD systems, |
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rather than use an initramfs; e.g. |
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CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin ..." |
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PPS. This is all shown on one of the AMD APUs, way down during the booting |
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process: |
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$ dmesg | grep -i micro |
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[ 0.622441] [drm] Loading ARUBA Microcode |
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[ 5.763242] [drm] Loading hainan Microcode |
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[ 6.653025] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06001119 |
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[ 6.657962] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06001119 |
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[ 6.658890] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x06001119 |
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[ 6.659881] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x06001119 |
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[ 6.661136] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |