Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?
Date	2024-09-25 22:10 +0200
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Franco Martelli wrote: 
> On 25/09/24 at 18:16, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > Is the CPU updated to the latest microcode?
> > Yes.
> > 
> > Resources I needed to find that out for you:
> > https://www.cpu-world.com/cgi-bin/CPUID.pl?CPUID=22328
> 
> Thank you for the time you spent for me
> 
> > and
> > 
> > https://github.com/platomav/CPUMicrocodes/blob/master/AMD/cpu00600F20_ver06000852_2018-02-06_893C1544.bin
> 
> So the CPU's microcode currently installed is dated February 2018, am I
> right?


Correct. And it is not surprising, because AMD hasn't produced a
chip with that core since 2015.

> What I'm looking for it was a procedure to discover if the CPU's microcode
> is synced with that provided by "amd64-microcode" package. Like that posted
> by Jeffrey Walton:

Doesn't matter: it has the latest available from AMD, and either
amd64-microcode has the same version, or it has an earlier
version -- which is unlikely.

-dsr-

Thread

Is the CPU microcode updated? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-09-24 21:40 +0200
  Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-09-25 01:00 +0200
    Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-09-25 17:10 +0200
  Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2024-09-25 15:00 +0200
    Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-09-25 17:10 +0200
      Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-09-25 18:40 +0200
        Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-09-25 21:40 +0200
          Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-09-25 22:10 +0200
          Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-09-26 10:40 +0200
            Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-09-26 15:40 +0200
      Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2024-09-26 15:00 +0200
        Re: Is the CPU microcode updated? Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com> - 2024-09-27 09:50 +0200
        objtool errors message while compiling the Kernel (was: Is the CPU  microcode updated?) Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-09-27 15:20 +0200

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