I am planning to upgrade from Buster to Bullseye, and trying to prepare
for any problems.
The release notes say
The intel-microcode package currently in bullseye and buster-security
(see DSA-4934-1 (https:
//www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4934)) is known to contain two
significant bugs. For
some CoffeeLake CPUs this update may break network interfaces
(https://github.com/intel/
Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/issues/56) that use
firmware-iwlwifi,
and for some Skylake R0/D0 CPUs on systems using a very outdated
firmware/BIOS, the system may
hang on boot
(https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/
issues/31).
I have no idea whether my old processor is a "CoffeeLake" or a "Skylake"
or something else. It is a pc that I bought in 2008, I think (and still
working just fine).
/proc/cpuinfo says:
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Do I need to worry about those microcode bugs?
Thanks,
Jesper Dybdal
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