oh come on. Spectre on AMD isn't even much of a problem. Why the panic? Also... be prepared for a lot of trouble with intel cpu's soon...
2018-05-20 15:07 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org>: > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:59 AM Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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. > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/ > linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=77101513943ef198e2050667c87abf19e6cbb1d8 > > > Bulldozer and Zen updates! > > Nice to see, but again there is no indication of what these microcode > updates actually do. Presumably they have something to do with Spectre, > but there is no way to confirm that as far as I can tell. > > I get that not everything is open-source. At the very least they could > have some release notes. Even NVidia has those... > > -- > Rich > >
