On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 03:39:48PM +1000, Chris Samuel wrote:
On 27/08/12 01:34, Adam Bolte wrote:
For the most part however, Intel doesn't issue microcode updates.
Yes they do. That's why there's an "update-intel-microcode" program included in the microcode.ctl package in Debian/Ubuntu, so you can grab the latest version they've published rather than the one included in the distro. Latest update as in June apparently.
samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ md5sum /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat a0ed9124a72b31cbb1b307ae4e9c0022 /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ dlocate !$ dlocate /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat intel-microcode: /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ sudo update-intel-microcode successfully downloaded Intel 20120606 microcode samuel@eris:~/Downloads/linux$ md5sum /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat 1a1cf79dd1fab186c8a8fbae69aa9649 /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.dat
Those microcode updates are (apparently) usually applied via BIOS updates for proprietary operating systems.
Interesting. Thanks for correcting me! I just checked that there is indeed packages called amd64-microcode and intel-microcode in the non-free repository for Wheezy, both of which came out this year. Thanks, Adam