From: Corbin Bird <corbinbird@charter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 07:02:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <929a4f49-5958-e54a-21c3-89d1d5d53003@charter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCGx3mfQPF+EA8cizV6JPkoTJ459i=8XPdy39RK=03VG3A@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/20/2018 06:46 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
> How often does the linux-firmware package update? On a schedule or as
>
> needed?
>
>
> There's a version bump request bug in for these and new AMDGPU
> firmware. Hopefully it will get processed quickly.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/656136
.
Thank You, for the info.
I noticed something odd about the microcode however ...
> amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin 7876 -> 5356 bytes
.
The size dropped by 2Kb?
So is the "fix" actually disabling fixes for other problems?
.
Reference Link :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=77101513943ef198e2050667c87abf19e6cbb1d8
.
Corbin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-21 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-12 20:20 [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre? Taiidan
2018-05-12 23:53 ` Corbin Bird
2018-05-13 0:21 ` Adam Carter
2018-05-13 0:52 ` Corbin Bird
2018-05-13 1:24 ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-20 8:59 ` Adam Carter
2018-05-20 12:50 ` Corbin Bird
2018-05-20 23:46 ` Adam Carter
2018-05-21 12:02 ` Corbin Bird [this message]
2018-05-21 14:00 ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-22 4:47 ` Taiidan
2018-05-22 8:41 ` Adam Carter
2018-05-22 21:54 ` Corbin Bird
2018-05-20 13:07 ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-20 16:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2018-05-20 18:31 ` Rich Freeman
2018-05-13 0:34 ` Dale
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