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And does AMD allow it? If yes, than we have one more reason to......

• idoubtit 8y ago
  Debian's package amd64-microcode contains the non-free AMD CPU firmware with its license. Extract from /usr/share/doc/amd64-microcode/copyright: > If You redistribute this Software, You must reproduce the above > copyright notice and this license with the Software. > You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this Software > or any portion thereof. Like Intel, they forbid, as much as possible, any reverse engineering. But unlike Intel, they allow redistribution and benchmarking.
  • loeg 8y ago
    The family 17h microcode blobs only apply to Epyc (server segment) models, not consumer Ryzen, which is a bit unfortunate.
    • cosmojg 8y ago
      Isn't consumer microcode distributed as part of the linux-firmware package?
• loeg 8y ago
  AMD doesn't distribute microcode updates for consumer processors, only Epyc, so it's kind of a mixed bag. They expect consumer processors to get microcode updates via BIOS vendors.
  • walterbell 8y ago
    How about Ryzen Pro which is targeted at enterprise?