On Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:19:14 PM AEST Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Russell Coker wrote: > > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9505 @ 2.83GHz > > > > On a system with the above CPU running Debian/Testing I get the following > > results from the spectre-meltdown-checker script. Is this a bug in the > > intel- microcode package that the latest version isn't packaged? There > > is no newer version of intel-microcode in Unstable. > > Intel upstream decided to not distribute it, for whatever reason. The > Core2 will not get any fixes for MDS either (nor will Nehalem and > Westmere). > > It is easy enough to source that microcode update if you look for it, > and you can just drop it on /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.bin with > intel-microcode installed, and update the initramfs. It will pick the > extra microcode up.
Should it be regarded as a bug in the intel-microcode package that it doesn't have this update that is "easy enough to source"? Or do you mean "easy to get but not licensed for distribution"? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
