Re: microcode updates and spectre variant 2

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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Koji contains linux-firmware-20171215-82.git2451bb22.fc27 which
>> contains intel-ucode from 20171117. But I don't know if this firmware
>> contains the microcode required to completely secure from Spectre
>> variant 2.
>
> Intel CPU microcode is not provided by the linux-firmware package.  It
> is shipped in the microcode_ctl package.

Huh. So I have updates-testing enabled but I have
microcode_ctl-2.1-19.fc27 still. And microcode_ctl-2.1-20.fc27 is
stable.


>
> Did you actually find intel-ucode in linux-firmware or were you just
> assuming that is where it was coming from?  I'm asking to make sure it
> was a misunderstanding because others might make the same mistake.

I have no idea why I thought it was in linux-firmware.



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Chris Murphy
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