A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by swills on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:47AM (#21387078)

I believe AMD made it policy to stop providing those updates separately and for users to get them via BIOS updates, though I don't have a reference for it right now.

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by thenewnewguy on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:23AM (#21388177)

There appears to be an AMD microcode update [1] in the kernel's linux-firmware repo as recently as 1 week ago, so I don't think this is true? And it's an update for "processor family 17h", which is Zen/Zen2, so it's not like this is only for old CPUs.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by throwaway2048 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:52AM (#21387131)

This is a terrible policy because plenty of BIOS vendors couldn't be more apathetic

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