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On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:21:10 +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: |
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> On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:53:58 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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>> On Monday, 8 January 2018 09:05:02 GMT Max Zettlmeißl wrote: |
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>>> It seems like there are no microcode updates for your specific CPU |
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>>> bundled in linux-firmware. |
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>> Only two out of three Intel boxen here report an early update of microcode in |
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>> dmesg. Even when they do, it is not certain the latest firmware has brought |
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>> new code: |
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>> [ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x7, date = |
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>> 2013-08-20 |
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>> This date above puzzles me. Is it that on this PC's CPU the Intel bugs cannot |
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>> be ameliorated by the latest intel-ucode release, or is it that Intel have not |
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>> bothered to release microcode revisions for all their products. |
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> The latter - older CPUs simply don't get updates. My server & workstation |
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> are i5/i7 SandyBridge built in early 2012, and their last microcode updates |
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> are from 2013 as well. |
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>> Therefore if microcode for my CPU was included in intel-ucode releases since |
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>> 2017-01-01, is this the same unchanged microcode being released since the date |
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>> reported in dmesg of 2013-08-20? |
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> Seems like it. |
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Just read that Intel plans to ship microcode updates for CPUs built in and |
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after *2013*, so I guess that means anything after & including Ivy Bridge. |
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Announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ9zB74G_U |
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All my machines will be running AMD very soon. I need more cores anyway. |
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-h |
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