AMD pulls buggy AGESA 1.0.0.3ABA code

Posted on Friday, July 19 2019 @ 10:04 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

AMD has pulled the AMD AGESA 1.0.0.3ABA microcode because bugs in the code caused PCI Express stability issues on motherboards. Motherboard makers were under a tight schedule to roll out this BIOS update, which provided insufficient time to do proper testing. Therefore, the bug only popped up after AGESA 1.0.0.3ABA was made public.

Peter "Shamino" Tan from ASUS commented that the company was under a tight schedule to push 1.0.0.3ABA out as BIOS updates, and didn't have the time to properly validate it. "We just got told to pull (was undergoing validation prior) 1003 ABA version," he said, adding the root cause of the problem being "that PCIE speed of BXB-C downgraded from gen4 to gen2,..." He comments "so its not surprising that bugs emerge since the source has hidden bugs that only gets unraveled with thorough testing. combine that with trying to get firmwares out in a tight time frame, kinda damn if you do (release firmware quickly) and damn if you dont (dont release firmware quickly) situation."

There are no issues with 1.0.0.3AB.

Via: TPU

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