On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > When is gentoo going to receive these? >
Has AMD actually released anything publicly? I find AMD's microcode updates to be horribly documented in general, unless there is some website somewhere published by AMD that somebody could be helpful enough to point out... Typically these work their way into linux-firmware, somehow, usually without any indication as to what they actually do. Back when Spectre first was discovered there was a microcode update being circulated that many thought addressed Spectre but my understanding is that it turned out to have nothing to do with it. Not that you would necessarily know one way or another as it is just a binary blob devoid of any kind of release notes. I've always been an AMD fan but they'd do their customers a great service if they just posted a website with links to various versions of their microcode and even a sentence or two describing why each was released. All that said, once you do get updated microcode it can be loaded following some instructions on the wiki (easiest way is to embed the microcode in the kernel and there might be a kernel option you need to toggle). Looking at the linux-firmware upstream git I don't see any recent AMD-related commits there. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/log/ In any case, if somebody spots a blob from someplace reasonably credible I'm sure the linux-firmware maintainers wouldn't object to filing a bug... -- Rich
