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> In late May, devops team noticed a debian package update for intel-microcode Does this mean that other OS are still susceptible to this? I'm not familiar on
by mihaifm 9y ago
> In late May, devops team noticed a debian package update for intel-microcode
Does this mean that other OS are still susceptible to this? I'm not familiar on how hardware bugs can be fixed at the OS level.
- acqq 9y agoCPUs have updates too, Intel makes them for their processors, but every modern OS has to add the update and install it on every power on.
- wolfgke 9y ago> but every modern OS has to add the update and install it on every power on. This can also be done by the UEFI (though many hardware vendors shy away from releasing UEFI updates, while for OSes this is common routine).
- Filligree 9y agoIf you haven't explicitly enabled microcode updates for your distribution, then chances are good it's disabled. You should check into it. Most of the time that just requires installing a package, but you might also need to rebuild initramfs. For NixOS, it's just a single flag in configuration.nix as usual.