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On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:59 AM Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> As far as I can tell there is no official AMD microcode update page, or |
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any |
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>> kind of official release notes. I'm not sure where linux-firmware |
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actually |
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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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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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Nice to see, but again there is no indication of what these microcode |
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updates actually do. Presumably they have something to do with Spectre, |
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but there is no way to confirm that as far as I can tell. |
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I get that not everything is open-source. At the very least they could |
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have some release notes. Even NVidia has those... |
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Rich |
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