Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16hprocessors

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Nov 17 2012 - 09:40:44 EST


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:35:17PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> One possibility is that BIOS already incorporated all patches (which
> typically is the case) and so the driver doesn't have to do anything.

/proc/cpuinfo contains ucode version and the processor's f/m/s, which
is enough information to tell us whether your old phenom needs ucode
patching.

Thanks.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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