On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 01:56:36PM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > And has anybody seen the "frequent reboots" on linux ? Or only on > > windows ? > > Windows? Wazzat? ;-) > > > > > Early reports suggested Haswell and Broadwell were affected - my > > Haswell does have new firmware, but I haven't seen the problem. > > Not to beat a dead horse, but without an Intel Changelog how can you tell > just what you have vs whatever "fix" causes the reboots? Maybe all you got > were some of the usual "stability" fixes? > > > > > I saw a report a little while ago claiming that machines as far back > > as SandyBridge were also affected, but my SB didn't get newer > > firmware. > > > > ĸen > > The initial reports suggest even my Conroes and Nehalem-Bloomfield/Lynnfield > are! >
There is now a little documentation (it probably won't satisfy Paul, it doesn't say what the various versions changed, but I don't think there is anything for his machines anyway). First, from vmware, about problematic versions - mostly for Xeons, but for Haswell they also mention i3-4300, i5-4500-TE, i7-4700-EQ (no idea what the letters on the end mean, and my Haswell is i7-4790 so I guess only a few specific models were affected, and possibly I was wrong in assuming this was windows only. And from the horse's mouth, with instructions to stop/continue deployment of certain versions: https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/microcode-update-guidance.pdf Looks like Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge will not be getting updates, so the same presumably applies to older generations. ĸen -- Truth, in front of her huge walk-in wardrobe, selected black leather boots with stiletto heels for such a barefaced truth. - Unseen Academicals -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
