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intel-microcode package

  1. Bug #1700373
  2. Comment #69

Comment 69 for bug 1700373

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Adrien Beau (adrienbeau) wrote :

Another test, this time on a NUC with a Pentium N3700 Braswell CPU under Xenial.

$ uname -a
Linux 4.10.0-28-generic #32~16.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 20 10:19:48 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
(...)vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 76
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3700 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 3
microcode : 0x363
(...)

Before installing the intel-microcode package I had:

kernel: microcode: sig=0x406c3, pf=0x1, revision=0x363
kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.

After installing the 3.20151106.1 package, nothing changed.
After installing the 3.20170707.1~ubuntu16.04.0 package, nothing changed.

This is as expected, since this CPU is not affected by the problem, and (as far as I know) has no recent microcode update.

The new package (and the update from the old to the new) works fine on this machine.