| 27 Jul 2024 |
 K900 | And then I guess some hyperscaler bonks them and they push the EPYC updates to linux-firmware | 07:32:55 |
| K900 | And then people start asking and they push desktop Ryzen too | 07:33:04 |
 woobilicious | That's until the mobo manufacturer stops bios updates lol | 07:33:09 |
| K900 | ...are you on, like, AM3? | 07:33:29 |
| K900 | Because AM4/AM5 boards and all the EPYCs are still supported on every major vendor I know of | 07:33:43 |
| woobilicious | No, AM4, but I think my old Ivy bridge was effected by Spectre back in the day and there was no bios update for that. | 07:34:24 |
| K900 | I mean | 07:34:41 |
| K900 | Did Intel even issue microcode updates for that | 07:34:52 |
| woobilicious | Looks like there's a bios update I can apply for RET bug, such a PITA to do though, resetting all my bios settings sucks. | 07:36:41 |
| woobilicious | K900: my laptop is a 5000 series Ryzen and hasn't had a bios update ship since Oct 2022, there's like 4 security patches on my AM4 desktop bios that can't be included. | 07:46:47 |
| K900 | Ah shiet | 07:49:49 |
| K900 | Our kernel is built without CONFIG_MICROCODE_LATE_LOADING | 07:49:54 |
| K900 | So you do need to use those options | 07:50:08 |
| K900 | And we should probably enable it | 07:50:13 |
| woobilicious | Ahh that explains why I didn't see anything in dmseg | 07:50:18 |
| woobilicious | Intel i9 owners will be happy they got another 6 months out of it before it dies lol | 07:51:22 |
| * K900 goes to enable ucode updates | 07:54:47 |
 @aloisw:kde.org | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
And then people start asking and they push desktop Ryzen too Did they ever push anything other than Epyc? | 13:53:07 |
| K900 | Yes | 13:53:14 |
| 28 Jul 2024 |
| woobilicious | All the more reason to push AMD etc to support coreboot. | 00:09:42 |
| woobilicious | K900: how quickly does your X3D chip compile the stock kernel? | 05:26:35 |
| K900 | Like 10-12 minutes | 05:30:17 |
| woobilicious | What model is that? My 5900x does it in about 20mins | 05:31:18 |
| K900 | 7950X3D | 06:59:02 |
| K900 | But base model 7950X is about as fast | 06:59:10 |
| K900 | Thanks to the reduced clock speed on the X3D chiplet | 06:59:22 |
| woobilicious | Ahh, the extra L3 doesn't help that much? | 06:59:46 |
| woobilicious | My system looks like it might be slightly IO bound too, perhaps your SSD + lack of bcachefs might be helping lol. | 07:00:58 |
| K900 | It generally seems to ~tie the base model in heavily threaded productivity workloads | 07:01:56 |
| woobilicious | Yeah, I saw some speculation that the large L3 might help for compliation work due to gcc binary being huge, but never looked in to it much due to the fact that AM4 didn't have X3D for the dual CCD models at the time. | 07:06:01 |
