> When there's a bug in the CPU microcode, you're at the mercy of your motherboard vendor to release a new system BIOS that will update it for you—you can't jus

> When there's a bug in the CPU microcode, you're at the mercy of your motherboard vendor to release a new system BIOS that will update it for you—you can't just go to some download link at AMD and apply a fix yourself. At least on Linux, that's not true. Intel publishes microcode updates on Github [1] (and distros package it) and AMD has it upstreamed in linux-firmware [2], so you don't have to rely on motherboard vendors at all. [1] https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Dat... [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/amd-ucode https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...