Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
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Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#2It's been long enough, can we please just have Intel (YEAR) CPU as a reference rather than the eternally opaque codenames?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Lake
Intel 2017+ CPUs (Coffee Lake+).
Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#3It's been long enough, can we please just have Intel (YEAR) CPU as a reference rather than the eternally opaque codenames? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Lake Intel 2017+ CPUs (Coffee Lake+).
Going by year doesn't help when they have more than one microarchitecture in their product line at a time. If their naming conventions were a bit cleaner and they didn't rebadge older chips to prevent the appearance of having holes in their product lineup, then we could almost go by model numbers, but that's definitely not viable. As difficult as they may be to remember, the microarchitecture codenames are the most concise way to unambiguously specify the affected chips.
Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
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Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#5For the BSDs and Linux, microcode updates can be loaded by the OS. What about Windows? Are microcode updates made available via Windows, or only via BIOS updates if the system manufacturer decides to make updates?
If the latter, what do people do when their system manufacturer doesn't provide updates?
Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#6Phoronix certainly has strong technical background. However, I am not friend of their sometimes dramatic writing style. I call them the Linux yellow press :) Let's wait and see whether that SA comes and whether it brings something big.
Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#7For the BSDs and Linux, microcode updates can be loaded by the OS. What about Windows? Are microcode updates made available via Windows, or only via BIOS updates if the system manufacturer decides to make updates? If the latter, what do people do when their system manufacturer doesn't provide updates?
I don't expect an OS to be able to update hardware
Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#8For the BSDs and Linux, microcode updates can be loaded by the OS. What about Windows? Are microcode updates made available via Windows, or only via BIOS updates if the system manufacturer decides to make updates? If the latter, what do people do when their system manufacturer doesn't provide updates?
Yes, microcode updates are distributed as part of Windows Update
Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#9Phoronix certainly has strong technical background. However, I am not friend of their sometimes dramatic writing style. I call them the Linux yellow press :) Let's wait and see whether that SA comes and whether it brings something big.
Phoronix is where AMD is infallible and Intel/NVIDIA are evil incarnates.
And that results in news pieces like this.
Re: Intel Issues New CPU Microcode for New, Undisclosed Security Updates
#10For the BSDs and Linux, microcode updates can be loaded by the OS. What about Windows? Are microcode updates made available via Windows, or only via BIOS updates if the system manufacturer decides to make updates? If the latter, what do people do when their system manufacturer doesn't provide updates?
I don't expect an OS to be able to update hardware
We have been for quite some time: https://fwupd.org/