just a heads up: these amd microcodes from november onward fail to load on older bioses due to CVE-2024-56161
the bulletin hints at a check added that’d reject them in recent bioses, but even on year+ old bioses they fail too
edit: I specifically tested the following:
00A50F00 on a 2023-08 bios
includes: 0x0a50000c
works: 0x0a500011, 2024-02-29
fails: 0x0a500014, 2024-11-11
00A20F12 on a 2023-06 bios
includes: 0x0a20120a
works: 0x0a201210, 2024-02-29
fails: 0x0a201213, 2024-12-05
00A60F12 on a 2024-11 bios
works: 0x0a601209, 2024-02-27
fails: 0x0a60120c, 2024-11-10
00A60F12 on a 2025-01 bios
works: 0x0a60120c, 2024-11-10
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@SkewedZeppelin
Interesting, I’ve never heard of such a thing. Which of course doesn’t mean that what you write can’t be true. I think this is due to AGESA. Ever since AGESA, the BIOS hasn’t been built like it was before. Because of this, Intel BIOSes are much easier to work with.
lfb6
March 4, 2025, 4:39pm
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zyn8
March 7, 2025, 4:23pm
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maybe you can use zentool to resign the patches, then they will load ok
@zyn8
for reference here are the currently failing zen1-4 microcodes available in CPUMicrocodes@f2258101:
cpu00A10F11_ver0A101154_2024-11-12_10CBB8CE.bin: BAD
cpu00A10F12_ver0A10124F_2024-11-12_22DDB42F.bin: BAD
cpu00A10F81_ver0A10810C_2024-11-12_5E78BB92.bin: BAD
cpu00A20F10_ver0A201030_2024-11-11_63FFA48B.bin: BAD
cpu00A20F12_ver0A201213_2024-12-05_E7F6C8B8.bin: BAD
cpu00A50F00_ver0A500014_2024-11-11_5646B6F5.bin: BAD
cpu00A60F12_ver0A60120C_2024-11-10_2D08C95C.bin: BAD
cpu00A70F52_ver0A70520A_2024-11-11_05E8D8C2.bin: BAD
cpu00A70F80_ver0A70800A_2024-11-11_1061D528.bin: BAD
cpu00AA0F02_ver0AA00219_2024-11-13_D177BF43.bin: BAD
they would all presumably need an updated bios/agesa to load them
sorry for the OT, can a mod split this into another topic?@MeatWar but post 3 should be moved back
zyn8
March 7, 2025, 8:45pm
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if they rotated the signing key in sb-3019 then zentool will use the old key so an old bios will accept it. maybe?
windows version here