> > > This has indeed been pretty frustrating. > > 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. > > It sounds like AMD intends for the microcode updates to be distributed via > firmware updates, in which case the fixes would be done before boot. That > is a good thing of course, but they should still release the microcode > files themselves, and also have release notes for something like this. >
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=77101513943ef198e2050667c87abf19e6cbb1d8 Bulldozer and Zen updates!