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Processor Microcode for Linux
- CyberDildonics 9y agoI would rather just ask the NSA what information they would like from me and send it to them directly.
- a0-prw 9y agoBut if they told you what information they wanted from you, they'd have to kill you ;)
- mykull 9y agoWe already know this. They have a mandate for total information awareness. Collect everything. They just claim they haven't collected the data until someone views it in their database for a specific purpose, but that's misusing the word "collection" so they can pretend they aren't shitting all over the 4th amendment.
- tyingq 9y agoIs this Spectre/Meltdown related? The last microcode release for that wasn't good.
- swills 9y agoYes, this should have the fixed fix.
- gargravarr 9y agoDoes amaze me that Intel list this as supporting all the way back to the original Pentium 75MHz. That's over twenty years old. This kind of support for a consumer tech product? Incredible.
- ashleyn 9y agoOG Pentiums are still used in embedded systems and space applications
- bratch 9y agoThe package contains microcode for old CPUs but it isn't necessarily still updated or recent. Here for example is what's available for my router's CPU, from the latest package: # grep model\ name /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz # iucode_tool -S -l /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/* | tail -n1 iucode_tool: system has processor(s) with signature 0x000006fd 030/003: sig 0x000006fd, pf_mask 0x01, 2010-10-02, rev 0x00a4, size 4096 Last updated almost eight years ago, so doesn't contain any Spectre/Meltdown fixes.
- gargravarr 9y agoAccording to another link on here, there are plans to patch all the way back to 45nm Core 2 Duo chips in the works: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12533/intel-spectre-meltdown https://www.anandtech.com/show/12533/intel-spectre-meltdown