On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:53:58 +0000, Mick wrote: > 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.
The latter - older CPUs simply don't get updates. My server & workstation are i5/i7 SandyBridge built in early 2012, and their last microcode updates are from 2013 as well. > 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? Seems like it. -h
