Re: [gentoo-user] microcode applied?

[Mick]

On Monday, 8 January 2018 09:05:02 GMT Max Zettlmeißl wrote:
> It seems like there are no microcode updates for your specific CPU
> bundled in linux-firmware.

Only two out of three Intel boxen here report an early update of microcode in 
dmesg.  Even when they do, it is not certain the latest firmware has brought 
new code:

[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x7, date = 
2013-08-20

This date above puzzles me.  Is it that on this PC's CPU the Intel bugs cannot 
be ameliorated by the latest intel-ucode release, or is it that Intel have not 
bothered to release microcode revisions for all their products.

Running in the directory /lib/firmware/intel-ucode the following command:

iucode_tool -v --date-after=2017-01-01  --write-all-named-to=TEST .

spews out into TEST/ the microcode for this CPU:

s000106E5_m00000013_r00000007.fw

Therefore if microcode for my CPU was included in intel-ucode releases since 
2017-01-01, is this the same unchanged microcode being released since the date 
reported in dmesg of 2013-08-20?

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Regards,
Mick