[OpenWrt-Devel] [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

[Lucian Cristian]

On 19.01.2018 00:41, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>
>> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
>>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to
>>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre.
>>
>> We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.3.
>> For master we should backport it to GCC 5.5, but what do we want to do
>> with 17.01 and 15.05 ?
>
> I'll speak only of CC - there is no microcode updater in it at all, so 
> while 3.18 contains partial patches and GCC 4.8 is unlikely to get 
> fixed, we should add this facility into it anyway.
>
>> The AMD microcoded updater needs at least kernel 4.15, 4.14.13, 4.9.76,
>> 4.4.111  which we already have.
>
> That's only for the fam17h (Zen) CPUs, earlier CPU types should work 
> with earlier kernels, and this can likely be backported into 3.18. (I 
> don't have a Zen-based box to test, hands up whoever has one.)
>
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I do have an R5 1600, but can't test until Monday night


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