On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 9:39 AM Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 3950x. > Nice. I figured I should be updating the microcode... so I set up early > updating but it isn't doing anything. > > dmesg is listing what the current microcode level is. The problem is, I > can't find anywhere that lists what the current (or latest) microcode > version is supposed to be in linux-firmware. > > This processor is so new that it's possible that there are no updates > for it but I'd like to make sure. > > I've tried the early microcode update process on my Intel laptop and it > works, so all I can think of is there are no microcode updates. > > Does anyone know of a list of microcode versions? > I dont know, so i just use the ~amd64 linux-firmware version. For my 3900X its currently; microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x08701013 The last update came through in October; firmware-md5s-2019-09-09.txt:fef89be989f6a160b340027a24cd0a16 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin firmware-md5s-2019-09-25.txt:fef89be989f6a160b340027a24cd0a16 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin firmware-md5s-2019-10-23.txt:a30e5f81d37ed38faf039b75bc376197 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin firmware-md5s-2019-11-12.txt:a30e5f81d37ed38faf039b75bc376197 /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin