@lahtis deb packaging doesn't provide us the granularity to have the kernel packages specifically depend on intel-microcode packages on Intel x86 systems and amd64-microcde on AMD x86 systems. Instead, we have to depend on both packages. If you have an Intel processor, the AMD microcode is not used. If you have an AMD processor, the Intel microcode is not used.
The downside here is slightly increased storage requirements to store the unnecessary package on your device (and the bandwidth to download the updates). We apologize for the inconvenience but felt it was warranted in order to get updated microcode deployed to all users in order to address known vulnerabilities in processors. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-drivers-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1386257 Title: intel-microcode should be installed by default, when the CPU is GenuineIntel Status in intel: Fix Released Status in Ubuntu Kylin: Fix Released Status in amd64-microcode package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntukylin-meta package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: intel-microcode should be installed by default on the bare-metal systems which are running on GenuineIntel CPUs, by the installers. Similarly other microcode packages for other CPUs brands should be considered for inclusion (e.g. amd64-microcode). I hope that ubuntu-drivers-common can gain ability to detect cpu series and/or vendors, packages that provide microcodes similarly declare support for cpu series and/or vendors, the microcode packages are shipped on the CDs in the pool directory, and installed on to the target machines as part of the installation. This should help with rapid correction of bugs and behaviour of the CPUs in the field. 2017 update, amd64-microcode should also be seeded, as it is useful to have it autoinstallable. In the recent years there have been critical CPU security vulnerabilities which got fixed with microcode updates. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1386257/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
