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On Friday, 12 January 2018 17:47:46 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net> |
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wrote: |
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> > On 01/11/2018 05:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> >> IMO Spectre is going to drive some microcode updates for relatively |
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> >> recent CPUs, compiler improvements, and some hand-tuning of |
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> >> particularly critical code. |
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> > The microcode updates pushed out for AMD by Gentoo seem to be only for : |
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> > Fam16h, Fam17h CPUs. |
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> FWIW even the 17h microcode doesn't seem to be updating on my Ryzen: |
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> dmesg | grep microco |
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> [ 0.989279] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.989421] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.989565] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.989708] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.989857] microcode: CPU4: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.990001] microcode: CPU5: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.990183] microcode: CPU6: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.990332] microcode: CPU7: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.990475] microcode: CPU8: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.990619] microcode: CPU9: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.990764] microcode: CPU10: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.990905] microcode: CPU11: patch_level=0x08001129 |
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> [ 0.991095] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2. |
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My AMD: |
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[ 0.025000] smpboot: CPU0: AMD A10-7850K Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G |
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(family: 0x15, model: 0x30, stepping: 0x1) |
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is similarly failing to show signs of early microcode update, as it always |
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did: |
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$ dmesg | grep -i microcode |
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[ 1.348991] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06003106 |
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[ 1.349718] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06003106 |
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[ 1.350434] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x06003106 |
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[ 1.351158] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x06003106 |
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[ 1.351879] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2. |
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> That said, there still isn't any AMD documentation around the |
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> microcode updates that I've been able to find, so I have no idea what |
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> the correct patch level is even supposed to be. I just know that I'm |
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> not getting a message about early updates. I do have linux 4.4.13 |
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> which includes the family 17h patch. |
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I'm on 4.14.12-gentoo now. |
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> The other odd thing is that a firmware update was released for my |
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> motherboard (ASRock AB350 Pro4) on the 10th, and if I flash it grub |
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> will no longer boot the linux kernel, and it is pretty slow overall, |
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> but it will still boot memtestx86 just fine. I figured I'd wait a few |
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> days and see if there is any further info on it. |
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No Asus MoBo firmware updates here ... but would they be even required/ |
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necessary for the CPU bugs? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |