Author: ken
Date: Thu Feb 18 19:29:09 2021
New Revision: 24235
Log:
intel microcode-20210216
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Feb 18 18:28:23
2021 (r24234)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Feb 18 19:29:09
2021 (r24235)
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
<para>February 18th, 2021</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Firmware: latest intel microcode is now 20210216
+ with a security update for some Skylake and Cascade Lake Xeon
+ processors.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[renodr] - Update to llvm-11.1.0. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;14673">#14673</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml Thu Feb 18 18:28:23 2021
(r24234)
+++ trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml Thu Feb 18 19:29:09 2021
(r24235)
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
'https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/releases/'/>
and downloading the latest file there. As of this writing the most
secure version of the microcode, for those machines which can boot it,
- is microcode-20201112.<!-- If you have a Skylake machine, please read
the
+ is microcode-20210216.<!-- If you have a Skylake machine, please read
the
Caution in the 'Early loading of microcode' section below.--> Extract
this
file in the normal way, the microcode is in the <filename>intel-ucode
</filename> directory, containing various blobs with names in the form
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