openSUSE Recommended Update: kernel-firmware: already load AMD CPU microcode in the initial ramdisk ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2013:1948-1 Rating: moderate References: #847158 Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: kernel-firmware was updated to also load AMD microcode in the initial ramdisk, hooking into mkinitrd if necessary. - Add mkinitrd script to add AMD microcode to initrd. This is needed because microcode driver is built in or gets loaded automatically via udev early. Therefore the microcode has to be available in initrd already. This must not be mixed up with early micorcode loading. This feature will not be implemented via mkinitrd. Dracut is doing early microcode loading. - bnc#847158 - mkinitrd scripts: - mkinitrd_setup-amd_microcode.sh Adding microcode to the initrd - mkinitrd_boot-amd_microcode.sh Triggering the reload at boot - Correct Supplements string so that the package gets correctly installed on machines with AMD CPUs bnc#847158 Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-1011 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 13.1 (noarch): kernel-firmware-20130714git-2.5.1 ucode-amd-20130714git-2.5.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/847158