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Subject: Re: testing early microcode loading
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From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
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On 9/10/18 8:26 PM, Mark Johnston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in
> the kernel in r337715, and in the sysutils/devcpu-data port as of 1.20.

Thanks for your work.
Altough I cannot test it yet, I appreciate it.

Just one question: what about AMD?
Is support for this brand coming in the future?
Is it impossible for some reason?

  bye & Thanks
	av.