Hi Louis-Philippe! On Fri, 05 Jan 2018, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> > No, we don't know if they will release it *only* to vendors for a > > firmware update, or also for operating system updates. Also, for Zen > > and later one cannot just hope to update microcode through the operating > > system, often it requires such an early update that it has to be done by > > the firmware itself. > > https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00004.html > > It seems AMD just released a microcode update to disable branch > prediction on its Zen architecture. Indeed. Also needs a kernel patch to accept microcode updates on Zen (hopefully we have that one already...). Let's see if I can source the microcode update datafile... -- Henrique Holschuh
