On Wed, 01 Jul 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Certain patch levels supplied by the BIOS should not be upgraded and > overwritten by the microcode loader because doing so leaves the system > dead in the water. > > The two below provide for filtering out those levels and avoiding the > update, thereby making those patch levels final. > > Borislav Petkov (2): > x86/microcode/amd: Extract current patch level read to a function > x86/microcode/amd: Do not overwrite final patch levels
This patchset looks like it is pretty much a requirement for any distro that ships AMD microcode updates... Maybe the two commits should be sent to -stable, now that they have seen lots of testing in mainline 4.4.x as well as SuSE kernels? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
