Comment # 3 on bug 912208 from andreas bittner

Note: I have moved the system further to 13.2 x64 via zypper dup and now it
loads the microcode to some nonzero version number seen in dmesg:

Linux tux 3.16.7-7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 17 18:00:44 UTC 2014
(762f27a) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

kernel-firmware-20140903git-2.4.noarch
kernel-desktop-3.16.7-7.1.x86_64


[    0.151502] Initializing cgroup subsys hugetlb
[    0.151519] tseg: 008f000000
[    0.151521] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[    0.151521] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[    0.151523] mce: CPU supports 7 MCE banks
[    0.151532] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 1024, 4MB 512
Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 512, 1GB 0
tlb_flushall_shift: 6
[    0.151593] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 24K (ffffffff82084000 -
ffffffff8208a000)
[    0.152119] ftrace: allocating 24400 entries in 96 pages
[    0.241435] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[    0.251449] smpboot: CPU0: AMD A10-6800K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
(fam: 15, model: 13, stepping: 01)
[    0.353122] Performance Events: Fam15h core perfctr, AMD PMU driver.
[    0.353126] ... version:                0
[    0.353127] ... bit width:              48
[    0.353128] ... generic registers:      6
[    0.353128] ... value mask:             0000ffffffffffff


[    0.152119] ftrace: allocating 24400 entries in 96 pages
[    0.241435] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[    0.251449] smpboot: CPU0: AMD A10-6800K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
(fam: 15, model: 13, stepping: 01)
[    0.353122] Performance Events: Fam15h core perfctr, AMD PMU driver.
[    0.353126] ... version:                0
[    0.353127] ... bit width:              48
[    0.353128] ... generic registers:      6
[    0.353128] ... value mask:             0000ffffffffffff
[    0.353129] ... max period:             00007fffffffffff


[    0.647845] Unpacking initramfs...
[    1.443625] Freeing initrd memory: 10468K (ffff880036b7e000 -
ffff8800375b7000)
[    1.443985] AMD-Vi: Found IOMMU at 0000:00:00.2 cap 0x40
[    1.443986] AMD-Vi:  Extended features:  PreF PPR GT IA
[    1.443989] AMD-Vi: Interrupt remapping enabled
[    1.444026] pci 0000:00:00.2: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X
[    1.455457] AMD-Vi: Lazy IO/TLB flushing enabled
[    1.455834] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    1.455836] software IO TLB [mem 0x89f78000-0x8df78000] (64MB) mapped at
[ffff880089f78000-ffff88008df77fff]
[    1.456078] perf: AMD NB counters detected
[    1.456134] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456142] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456147] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456154] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456211] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00
<tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[    1.456214] LVT offset 0 assigned for vector 0x400
[    1.456226] perf: AMD IBS detected (0x000000ff)
[    1.456246] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
[    1.456496] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    1.456514] Initialise system trusted keyring
[    1.456551] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    1.456567] audit: type=2000 audit(1420742296.123:1): initialized





[    1.455836] software IO TLB [mem 0x89f78000-0x8df78000] (64MB) mapped at
[ffff880089f78000-ffff88008df77fff]
[    1.456078] perf: AMD NB counters detected
[    1.456134] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456142] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456147] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456154] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456211] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00
<tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[    1.456214] LVT offset 0 assigned for vector 0x400
[    1.456226] perf: AMD IBS detected (0x000000ff)
[    1.456246] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
[    1.456496] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    1.456514] Initialise system trusted keyring


cannot provide more info[    0.647845] Unpacking initramfs...
[    1.443625] Freeing initrd memory: 10468K (ffff880036b7e000 -
ffff8800375b7000)
[    1.443985] AMD-Vi: Found IOMMU at 0000:00:00.2 cap 0x40
[    1.443986] AMD-Vi:  Extended features:  PreF PPR GT IA
[    1.443989] AMD-Vi: Interrupt remapping enabled
[    1.444026] pci 0000:00:00.2: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X
[    1.455457] AMD-Vi: Lazy IO/TLB flushing enabled
[    1.455834] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    1.455836] software IO TLB [mem 0x89f78000-0x8df78000] (64MB) mapped at
[ffff880089f78000-ffff88008df77fff]
[    1.456078] perf: AMD NB counters detected
[    1.456134] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456142] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456147] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456154] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x06001119
[    1.456211] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00
<tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[    1.456214] LVT offset 0 assigned for vector 0x400
[    1.456226] perf: AMD IBS detected (0x000000ff)
[    1.456246] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
[    1.456496] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    1.456514] Initialise system trusted keyring
[    1.456551] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    1.456567] audit: type=2000 audit(1420742296.123:1): initialized