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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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-h |
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