On recent machine (88 cores + HT) running Xenial: $ dpkg-query -W intel-microcode intel-microcode 3.20170707.1~ubuntu16.04.0
$ grep -E 'model|stepping' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u model : 79 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4669 v4 @ 2.20GHz stepping : 1 $ journalctl -k | grep microcode Aug 11 09:39:18 node14.mgmt.hre.local kernel: microcode: CPU0 sig=0x406f1, pf=0x20, revision=0xb00001e ... Aug 11 09:39:18 node14.mgmt.hre.local kernel: microcode: CPU175 sig=0x406f1, pf=0x20, revision=0xb00001e Aug 11 09:39:18 node14.mgmt.hre.local kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01 <[email protected]>, Peter Oruba It's probably not that relevant but I also couldn't find any regression on a very old Core 2 Duo (no new microcode) running Xenial: $ dpkg-query -W intel-microcode intel-microcode 3.20170707.1~ubuntu16.04.0 $ grep -E 'model|stepping' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3110 @ 3.00GHz stepping : 6 $ journalctl -k | grep microcode Aug 17 14:29:28 xeon kernel: microcode: CPU0 microcode updated early to revision 0x60f, date = 2010-09-29 Aug 17 14:29:28 xeon kernel: microcode: CPU1 microcode updated early to revision 0x60f, date = 2010-09-29 Aug 17 14:29:28 xeon kernel: microcode: CPU0 sig=0x10676, pf=0x1, revision=0x60f Aug 17 14:29:28 xeon kernel: microcode: CPU1 sig=0x10676, pf=0x1, revision=0x60f Aug 17 14:29:28 xeon kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.01 <[email protected]>, Peter Oruba -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700373 Title: intel-microcode is out of date, version 20170707 fixes errata on 6th and 7th generation platforms To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/+bug/1700373/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
