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> The most convenient way for us to apply the microcode update to our Broadwell servers at that time was via a BIOS update from the server vendor. You can read
by woliveirajr 9y ago
> The most convenient way for us to apply the microcode update to our Broadwell servers at that time was via a BIOS update from the server vendor.
You can read this article with another point of view: there was a bug somewhere that was leaking costumer information. After searching for a while, they discovered that the CPU had a bug that had already being solved/patched, all it took was a BIOS update, that wasn't done before because of... well, whatever.
- jgrahamc 9y agoThe CPU bug wasn't causing a security problem. We made a conscious decision to get crashes in production down to zero so that we would be alerted early if a subsequent security issue of a similar type occurred. During that investigation we came across mystery crashes which were already fixed by a microcode update.
- woliveirajr 9y ago:) thanks for clarifying