A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by pedrocr on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:44AM (#21387035)

If the kernel itself doesn't boot, installing the microcode package may not help. It only helps if the problem only occurs after the point at which the kernel loads the microcode. Hopefully that's early enough for most cases.

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by nemetroid on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:30PM (#21389765)

Early load microcode updating happens very early for this precise reason.

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by throwaway8941 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:50PM (#21390018)

Indeed. At least the Intel driver does it so early in the boot process that the "microcode updated" message is literally the first line in dmesg on a couple of systems I've bothered to check.

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