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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell what the current AMD microcode level is?
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:22:26
Message-Id: CAC=wYCHXyXrkfEaEDPU-S4TLO4O3j6jn+MLBO+5w6ciQtJDezg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to tell what the current AMD microcode level is? by Daniel Frey
1 On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 9:39 AM Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Well, I managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 3950x.
4 >
5
6 Nice.
7
8 I figured I should be updating the microcode... so I set up early
9 > updating but it isn't doing anything.
10 >
11 > dmesg is listing what the current microcode level is. The problem is, I
12 > can't find anywhere that lists what the current (or latest) microcode
13 > version is supposed to be in linux-firmware.
14 >
15 > This processor is so new that it's possible that there are no updates
16 > for it but I'd like to make sure.
17 >
18 > I've tried the early microcode update process on my Intel laptop and it
19 > works, so all I can think of is there are no microcode updates.
20 >
21 > Does anyone know of a list of microcode versions?
22 >
23
24 I dont know, so i just use the ~amd64 linux-firmware version. For my 3900X
25 its currently;
26 microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x08701013
27
28 The last update came through in October;
29 firmware-md5s-2019-09-09.txt:fef89be989f6a160b340027a24cd0a16
30 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin
31 firmware-md5s-2019-09-25.txt:fef89be989f6a160b340027a24cd0a16
32 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin
33 firmware-md5s-2019-10-23.txt:a30e5f81d37ed38faf039b75bc376197
34 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin
35 firmware-md5s-2019-11-12.txt:a30e5f81d37ed38faf039b75bc376197
36 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin

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