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On 05/20/2018 03:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> This has indeed been pretty frustrating. |
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> As far as I can tell there is no official AMD microcode update |
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> page, or any |
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> kind of official release notes. I'm not sure where linux-firmware |
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> gets the microcode files from (I'm sure they wouldn't load if they |
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> weren't |
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> genuine though). I can find no documentation as to what any of these |
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> updates actually do. |
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> It sounds like AMD intends for the microcode updates to be |
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> distributed via |
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> firmware updates, in which case the fixes would be done before |
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> boot. That |
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> is a good thing of course, but they should still release the microcode |
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> files themselves, and also have release notes for something like this. |
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> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=77101513943ef198e2050667c87abf19e6cbb1d8 |
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> Bulldozer and Zen updates! |
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Thanks for the info. |
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How often does the linux-firmware package update? On a schedule or as |
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needed? |
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Corbin |
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