(BCC'd to #929073 to avoid dragging the BTS into this thread). On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Russell Coker <[email protected]> schrieb: > > 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"? > > This is covered by #929073, which links to a PDF by Intel (which documents > that Intel won't ship an update for your CPU).
I'd like to add that: We do not, and will not, distribute in non-free's intel-microcode anything we did not get from Intel (or from someone else who got it from Intel with permission to redistribute). This ensures all microcode updates we distribute in non-free are under a license that allows redistribution. Note that, as long as there are very good reasons to do so, I am willing to distribute microcode updates that are no longer being distributed[1], since we did receive it with an appropriate license that allows redistribution in the first place. Also, one can place whatever microcode updates they got from wherever to /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode*.bin at their own risk and responsibility, and the intel-microcode package will attempt to use it. [1] as in: "they were being distributed by Intel on the Linux microcode update package in the past, and for more than one release of Intel's microcode update package". -- Henrique Holschuh
