Re: Downfall microcode update

Alexander Leidinger <[email protected]> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:41:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

The real microcode is in sysutils/devcpu-data-intel and updated much more 
recently.

You can load the microcode from loader, or from a rc.d service.

Bye,
Alexander.

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Am 9. August 2023 09:33:06 schrieb Stefan Bethke <[email protected]>:

> https://downfall.page/#faq
>
> Apparently, Intel will be issuing a microcode update for this. What is the 
> recommended way to automatically apply these during boot? I see that I have 
> cpupdate-g20180513_4 installed, which appears to be maintained despite the 
> scarily old date in the version number :-) 
> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cpupdate/
>
> The servers I'm concerned about are old enough to not receive BIOS updates 
> ever again.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
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