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