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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

by swills 7y ago

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.

throwaway2048 7y ago
This is a terrible policy because plenty of BIOS vendors couldn't be more apathetic
thenewnewguy 7y ago
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/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=2b016afc348ba4b5fb2016ffcb2822f4a293da0c https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...