Re: microcode updates and spectre variant 2

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On 2018-01-15, Randy Barlow <bowlofeggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm quite surprised that my PIII is getting a microcode update. It's 18
> years old!
>
I assume Intel simply released latest microcode for all processors they
had some regardless of the Spectre bug. Probably some of them have never
been released to generic public before. It only shows how hardware
companies are sloppy in supporting their products.

Check the date baked into the micrcode and reported by the kernel.
In my case, Linux started to report:

$ dmesg |grep microcode
[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xa0b, date = 2010-09-28
[    1.462370] microcode: sig=0x1067a, pf=0x10, revision=0xa0b
[    1.466454] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.

I doubt Intel fixed the Spectre bug seven years ago.

-- Petr
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