On Fri, 05 Jan 2018, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > Package: amd64-microcode > Severity: grave > > It seems AMD cpus are also affected by the meltdown/spectre bugs.
Yes, they are, although just by Spectre as far as we know (i.e. not affected by Meltdown). > Do you know if AMD plans to release microcode updates and if so, will it > be packaged here? Yes, they will release microcode updates to vendors. Apparently, these are not ready yet. No, we don't know if they will release it *only* to vendors for a firmware update, or also for operating system updates. Also, for Zen and later one cannot just hope to update microcode through the operating system, often it requires such an early update that it has to be done by the firmware itself. Therefore, this bug is not actionable right now. I will leave it open, but there is absolutely nothing we can do about it at the moment. Pester your motherboard vendor for an expected timeline for fixes, and do keep in mind that everyone had scheduled themselves for the issue to be disclosed next week (2018-01-09), not on 2018-01-03, so some leeway should be given for any vendor that is only going to have its stuff ready by next week. -- Henrique Holschuh
