Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:54:29 +0100 | From | "Daniel J Blueman" <> | Subject | Re: New format Intel microcode... |
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On 28/06/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote: > On 06/28/2007 10:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: [snip] > >> However, it listed only Windows related sites > >> for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really > >> fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does? > > > > First of all, Linux has microcode updates as well. Some of the more > > hypish news-bulletins just conveniently "forgot" about this. Basically > > all distributions ship them, so users who use the distro update tools > > get these automatically. And the update mentioned has been shipping for > > a while (in version 1.17). > > Fedora 6 has version 1.13 > Fedora 7 also has 1.13 > RHEL 5 has 1.15 > Debian stable has 1.15 (9 Oct 2006) > Suse 10.1 has 1.13
You've got to give credit to Intel for providing the ucode updates though.
The Ubuntu/Debian microcode.ctl package fetches a new version upon installation/reconfiguration [1]; I guess if there were ucode updates that resolved stability/vulnerability issues with Linux, the security team could release an updated package with new default microcode.
However, I think the package isn't installed per default in Ubuntu 7.04 ia32/x86-64...
Daniel
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# dpkg-reconfigure microcode.ctl Local microcode is old, you need an update. Trying to download an new version of microcode. Now attempting to download microcode. microcode downloaded sucessfully -- Daniel J Blueman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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