AMD Updates Programmer’s Manual

AMD64 Architecture
Programmer’s Manual
Volume 2:
System Programming

Revision Date: December 2017

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Here’s the complete changelog for this update:

Modified Sections 7.10.1 and 7.10.4.
Modified Sections 15.34.1, 15.34.7.
Added new Section 15.34.10.
Modified Section 15.35.10.
Modified Appendix A, Table A-7.

Not too useful, I wish I could diff PDFs better. I wish the writers would spend a few moments more on the changelog. Here’s the titles of the above sections:

7.10.1 Determining Support for Secure Memory Encryption
7.10.4 Page Table Support
15.34.1 Determining Support for SEV
15.34.7 Restrictions
15.34.10 SEV_STATUS MSR
15.35.10 Control Register Write Traps
Table A-7: Secure Virtual Machine MSRs