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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:37:14
Message-Id: CAC=wYCFHJ1gK-+PhtBAP9wtTKMd_SKbq+sXMix0Xsg9stVTq9Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:01 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
2 wrote:
3
4 > I've just gone through the procedure to update the microcode on this
5 > haswell
6 > i7 box, but the version is the same now as before today's portage update.
7 > On
8 > looking again at the output of 'emerge intel-microcode' I see the date
9 > hasn't changed:
10 >
11 > intel-ucode/06-3f-02
12 > signature: 0x306f2
13 > flags: 0x6f
14 > revision: 0x3b
15 > date: 2017-11-17
16 > size: 33792
17 >
18 > It looks as though my CPU hasn't been fixed yet. Is that right?
19 >
20
21 That's odd - i wonder why the checksum of the file changed;
22
23 # grep 06-3f-02 intel-firmware-md5s-9jan2018.txt
24 intel-firmware-md5s-10jan2018.txt
25 intel-firmware-md5s-9jan2018.txt:194c362f2c45d8a45e2ab58d5f2c9749
26 /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-3f-02
27 intel-firmware-md5s-10jan2018.txt:b6e684762e7212054271c9441048fa93
28 /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-3f-02

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete? Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>