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      It sounds like the criterion is “is newer microcode available”. So it doesn’t look like a marketing strategy to sell new CPUs.

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      The article does specify that it would report if the newest version of the firmware for the CPU family is not installed, so it doesn’t seem like this is that particular kind of BS.

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    How about a Linux Patch that reports binary blobs wirh no source AS __ Security Vulnerabilities __

    Or are we not allowed to criticize the back doors that hackers gain access to.

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    The Linux kernel would maintain a list of the latest Intel microcode versions for each CPU family, which is based on the data from the Intel microcode GitHub repository. In turn this list would need to be kept updated with new Linux kernel releases and as Intel pushes out new CPU microcode files.

    Sounds like that would be outdated for everyone without a rolling distro.

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      Stable distros can and will backport security fixes. Good ones that is.

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      Sounds like a user space application, there’s no place for this in the kernel. So would you need to upgrade kennel and reboot to update the list? Nonsense.

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      Yeah, methinks this will be one of those alerts pretty much everyone will be like “yeah, yeah, I know” and click to silence those notifications.