Like Intel, AMD also records the date in their blobs. The field was merely misnamed as "data_code" so far; this was perhaps meant to be "date_code". Split it into individual fields, just like we did for Intel some time ago, and extend the message logged after a successful update.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> --- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/amd.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/amd.c @@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ struct equiv_cpu_entry { }; struct microcode_patch { - uint32_t data_code; + uint16_t year; + uint8_t day; + uint8_t month; uint32_t patch_id; uint8_t mc_patch_data_id[2]; uint8_t mc_patch_data_len; @@ -251,8 +253,9 @@ static int apply_microcode(const struct return -EIO; } - printk(XENLOG_WARNING "microcode: CPU%u updated from revision %#x to %#x\n", - cpu, old_rev, rev); + printk(XENLOG_WARNING + "microcode: CPU%u updated from revision %#x to %#x, date = %04x-%02x-%02x\n", + cpu, old_rev, rev, patch->year, patch->month, patch->day); return 0; }