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dmidecode shows Processor Upgrade: <OUT OF SPEC> in aws R7a insatnces

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      Description of problem:

      During test R7a instances in 2227069, dmidecode shows Processor Upgrade: <OUT OF SPEC>.
      Below is details:

      From the dumped bin file, it seems that aws provides value in this field, so I guess it is because '4a' is new defined in smbios spec 3.7(Socket SP5).
      Please double check. I guess the tool needs update accordingly.

      00000100 45 43 32 00 00 04 2a 04 00 01 03 6b 02 11 0f a1 |EC2...*....k....|
      00000110 00 ff fb 8b 17 03 89 64 00 74 0e 28 0a 41 4a 05 |.......d.t.(.AJ.|

      $ dmidecode --from-dump r7a.medium_dmidecode_debug.bin -t 4

      1. dmidecode 3.4
        Reading SMBIOS/DMI data from file r7a.medium_dmidecode_debug.bin.
        SMBIOS 2.7 present.

      Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 42 bytes
      Processor Information
      Socket Designation: CPU 0
      Type: Central Processor
      Family: Zen
      Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
      ID: 11 0F A1 00 FF FB 8B 17
      Signature: Family 25, Model 17, Stepping 1
      Flags:
      FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
      VME (Virtual mode extension)
      DE (Debugging extension)
      PSE (Page size extension)
      TSC (Time stamp counter)
      MSR (Model specific registers)
      PAE (Physical address extension)
      MCE (Machine check exception)
      CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
      APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
      SEP (Fast system call)
      MTRR (Memory type range registers)
      PGE (Page global enable)
      MCA (Machine check architecture)
      CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
      PAT (Page attribute table)
      PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
      CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
      MMX (MMX technology supported)
      FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
      SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
      SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
      HTT (Multi-threading)
      Version: AMD EPYC 9R14
      Voltage: 0.9 V
      External Clock: 100 MHz
      Max Speed: 3700 MHz
      Current Speed: 2600 MHz
      Status: Populated, Enabled
      Upgrade: <OUT OF SPEC>
      L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005
      L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006
      L3 Cache Handle: 0x0007
      Serial Number: Not Specified
      Asset Tag: Not Specified
      Part Number: Not Specified
      Core Count: 1
      Core Enabled: 1
      Thread Count: 1
      Characteristics:
      64-bit capable
      Multi-Core
      Hardware Thread
      Execute Protection

      RHEL Version:
      RHEL-9.2(5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.x86_64)

      How reproducible:
      100%

      Steps to Reproduce:
      1. launch aws r7a.medium instance
      2. check dmidecode

      Actual results:
      Processor Upgrade is 'OUT OF SPEC'

      Expected results:
      no 'OUT OF SPEC' detected

      Additional info:

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              rh-ee-lichliu Lichen Liu
              xiliang@redhat.com Frank Liang
              Lichen Liu Lichen Liu
              Jeffrey Bastian Jeffrey Bastian
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