On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:46 AM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote:
> I have several sandy/ivybridge CPU's and I was wondering if anyone knows > as to if intel is releasing microcode updates for them. > Its been reported they said they will "provide firmware updates by the end of next week for 90% of all CPU models it released in the past five years" and i think that referred to last week. For ~amd64 this came through on Friday. I guess an md5sum of the relevant file before and after this update may provide some indication. Fri Jan 5 20:22:21 2018 >>> sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20171117_p20171215 Sound like Spectre fixes will involve a combination of new CPU microcode and software code updates.
