Am 01.03.2018 um 00:41 schrieb Dutch Ingraham:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:54:03PM -0600, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:43:26 -0600
Dutch Ingraham <stoa@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:50:09AM -0600, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:
You're looking at the dates that the last *bundle* was released. That says
nothing about what firmware is available for your processor. Your microcode was
"updated early", so it is being loaded just fine.
Scimmia
Thanks, Scimmia. I had considered that, but thought that would have
been spelled-out somewhere on Intel's site and didn't want to just
assume. So, how does one determine what files are on the .img?
The img file can be extracted with bsdtar. iucode_tool in the AUR used for
working with the intel bin file inside of that .img file. It can list, extract,
search, and more. There's even an example on the Microcode wiki page.
Did you just add that wiki page information?? (I'm just kidding, of
course.) Totally missed it - thanks for the info!
In February Intel also released a PDF with available and planned
microcode updates. The original now asks for a login, but this is a mirror:
http://www-pc.uni-regensburg.de/systemsw/security/microcode-update-guidance_02122018.pdf
Original location:
https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/02/microcode-update-guidance.pdf
