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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 page, or any |
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> kind of official release notes. I'm not sure where linux-firmware actually |
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> gets the microcode files from (I'm sure they wouldn't load if they 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 distributed via |
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> firmware updates, in which case the fixes would be done before 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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