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intel-microcode package

  1. Bug #1509764
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1509764

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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh) wrote : Re: [Bug 1509764] Re: Machine Check Exception with Broadwell CPU

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015, at 14:46, brainsail wrote:
> intel-microcode contains /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/*, which needs to be
> updated

Get the Canonical Intel platform team on this, please.

This is not a simple matter of updating a package: upstream DID NOT
release the required microcode updates yet on the usual Linux microcode
update channel, and there is no public information about the microcode
updates.

OTOH, apparently some microcode updates also require changes to the
BIOS. Without some help from @intel, (or, supposedly, access to NDA'ed
developer channel information), we don't know which ones have this sort
of dependency.

Hopefully, the Canonical platform team has contacts @intel to find out
which Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake microcode update revisions are safe
for the operating system to update to, and why Intel has not issued
Linux microcode updates since January 21st, 2015...

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