On 5/16/19 2:35 PM, Mike Banon wrote:
Hi Chris, if you'd like to verify the microcodes inside my AMD ucode patch: convert the hexadecimal arrays at their .c files back to binary, extract the microcodes from proprietary UEFI updates for those few AMD boards that are still getting them ( or get them already extracted by platomav from platomav's CPUMicrocodes repository - https://github.com/platomav/CPUMicrocodes ), and compare. They will match 1:1. And if you have any questions about any other parts of my patches, I'll try my best to address them.
Thanks. I'm a neophyte when it comes to firmware, and I'm just now inferring that there is no way for me to compare AMD patches directly since it appears AMD doesn't publish them.
I'm willing to accept the patches if they are harvested, reviewed and then signed by the coreboot project. But I don't know when or if they will be merged and available this way in the upcoming 4.10 release.
I also don't know which patches are considered necessary and which are listed because they are nice to have.
For reference, I intend to run Qubes OS, so I don't need discrete graphics, but it appears I'll need AtomBIOS. Will AtomBIOS be merged with the upcoming 4.10 release? I can't tell. Going down the list, "tint" is indicated but there is no What or Why or a link, and I can't turn up any background info by searching. OTOH, it looks like I can skip the SeaBIOS patch.