Re: Zenbleed

Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Jul 2023 01:20:25 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 08:34:56PM +0000, 0x1eef wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was curious if there are plans to apply the "chicken bit" 
> workaround for the Ryzen line of processors. A firmware
> update is not scheduled to be released until Nov or Dec 
> at the earliest. Thanks.

The chicken bit workaround is
# for x in /dev/cpuctl*; do cpucontrol -m '0xc0011029|=0x200' $x; done 
there is nothing to wait for.  It is silly to push this into kernel when
recommended solution is ucode update.