Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?

[Mick]

On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:06:46 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:47:25 GMT Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
> > > It looks as though my CPU hasn't been fixed yet. Is that right?
> >
> > It seems that patches are being pushed out as they are being received,
> > so back when that one was released, no other updates were available.
> >
> > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/643430#c10
> >
> > We should get the full range of updates in the next few days.
>
> Right. Patience is a virtue, they say.

So what are we to do with our old PCs, which will no longer receive Intel's 
microcode blessing?  Are we to throw them away in a landfill and of course 
take our custom elsewhere, or will the kernel patches suffice for both bugs 
and all variants?

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Regards,
Mick