On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:21:10 +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > 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.
Just read that Intel plans to ship microcode updates for CPUs built in and after *2013*, so I guess that means anything after & including Ivy Bridge. Announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ9zB74G_U All my machines will be running AMD very soon. I need more cores anyway. -h
