From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753394AbeFER4f (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:56:35 -0400 Received: from mail.medvecky.net ([85.118.132.146]:46807 "EHLO mail.medvecky.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753220AbeFER4c (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:56:32 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.9 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Update AMD cpu microcode for family 15h To: "Hurwitz, Sherry" , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Ivan Ivanov Cc: Josh Boyer , Linux Firmware , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , "Suthikulpanit, Suravee" , "Lendacky, Thomas" , "Grimm, Jon" References: <1527213479-121361-1-git-send-email-sherry.hurwitz@amd.com> <20180531220503.2jqs3oiqsnw7ye2t@khazad-dum.debian.net> <6402a30f-04d3-59d9-92df-5a43e2060f5c@assembler.cz> From: Rudolf Marek Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=r.marek@assembler.cz; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsBNBFN2VH4BCADpv+3Tkikr+X489Xso9UC719YdxgGiy0xBjDiWC22wAd3tHy6G3nEhWfh4 1UNGcqscPAvJMn2GhgSJRfBzj0wALXLkoTYta78wEK+Ji+Gs7PX9VhqRKt9/OIn/2XJ1Yv9i e8uo9MFBGFCB5roz+Ws8rdXq0Quu7VZylzRv7qqhxMAk9RvXCT2tyt6XY16R7ZEL9wbSLRAl h8LRPMF0iiLH1YenfSCX2XkW7eA7CJSjh9pwIBFOF5cd5mcT69OPO+TuAbdvgCcZPEoQQBhk QmOr2PlUOl3CSgqtTxjAjAxXhPTU7Q3xxgB2Oa7xbt3Eic2Z4lltP/dowULZqXvsC5DxABEB AAHNI1J1ZG9sZiBNYXJlayA8ci5tYXJla0Bhc3NlbWJsZXIuY3o+wsB+BBMBAgAoBQJTdlR+ AhsjBQkJZgGABgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRDAb22rZM9dcMf1B/97PHhB YaPoM4PHlk3o3HEs0ZxiJyVqDLpmM8kOh+Pcvb40KX0uebiODfeff+RYJWOff27la7AzqG20 dEAi3hpHYVigZWf3BaLXwCbUKlyLLydks4qydfKBG62PnM74sW1M/sfFA/bdzC9tnjy4G9r9 mXNBJBDHb4XuHeukqlrMLDDGW78wrfv4tjtW9Z3Aoroja9CnxREt6c3iHA50TX65BrthPxhF c+ES+4J/uuBe6pfq9PN8HZKBWgK+jhCoyCajck964ccVF1a2uTRhN39gXtA2YpKUqb+dcsp+ 2NH2eBVYZYaPVJIoIWPxhriOHszs+NjOkk+jBw2gVLy4bmOlzsBNBFN2VH4BCADsg91uA/mm l6APO+aWyqkiPjENreT2DT2gmoaEkp07jZrzNcQrLyNhGhsH6+UtCJLV9YNHbfJb7wsfXmXh IRh+TQYLJlrU4tBqvVB0F24+MEAFdt/1/jAmaihRZWKdE/Ogtt0YV7BEKfJk2KZxrG4wLB4G g57kI+aVmoVRl7/WmM46JpOJhBqvI6/Pw/ZIDhJZfrOXCCWM3pYjx0ftkkULPl6E6dXv3V7N 9dMV4bqNj4PDfysptFoVo02AblHqMmmBQ2LcI+o5HNm2iPyTklKMmq8Z5kblXDR6GXe2rO5c 5j0vQ6q5uSyVa30JNJcfl2iUT2akFv7n+RRWhlyCItjpABEBAAHCwGUEGAECAA8FAlN2VH4C GwwFCQlmAYAACgkQwG9tq2TPXXAq4Af/UhDBiEaW/s1gDmtci6ZBTDetOdWGx69dzD2rIm1b OoQiO1EZ+WNFe0RFmMByfCsRVXP4iD/Ly1l0c6ZNvCBPR+ssXlnltE0Z1S43ZrR4gYjWw2GM y1EcSOLv6Yvt/+8IS6YANlzR6RRBs2pM1ndM2AhI43k2rpGFarNEX7z9QrdcoZ4rY94DUGwZ 0hlQ5VrGt/DAnMkJmOkr6Yriiybw8COnw4qigLfZH6b87vUqdBjRr3BR0iD3ahiXUY0bhlX2 bQE1IdT8+enQsm4+ePcC8Oihl8Y9JI/cBCw3eEZOl2p1+8aRq7tGkLsilWXUCDJ2kCDQixCJ RoTzi/gSro2qhg== Message-ID: <9aa8d2aa-c58e-89fe-a2be-3b0de50fd554@assembler.cz> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 19:55:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sherry, Many thanks for your efforts. Are there any technical restriction(s) of why the OS bundled updates are not the latest available version? I think we can't count much on hardware vendors to release microcode updates in the BIOS in the timely manner. I also think especially for older families that BIOS updates won't be ever released. It is in the public interest to always have latest update available - and it is also in line with AMD phrase "At AMD, security is a top priority". Please consider having the latest microcode version available for OS updates too. I would also appreciate of having the latest microcode available for the coreboot.org project. Many thanks Rudolf