On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, mlnl wrote: > under Debian Stretch i have updated the Microcode from Intel > <https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27591/Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-File?v=t> > according to the readme > <http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/i/intel-microcode/unstable_README.Debian> > instructions.
For the record, this microcode release was added to Debian unstable today, and should be in your preferred mirror soon if it is not there yet. > [ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x24, date > = 2018-01-21 > [ 0.640195] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x24 Looks good. > With a vanilla kernel compiled with Meltdown/Spectre > mitigations, i get with spectre-meltdown-checker v0.35: ... (note that some _Debian_ kernels might not enable IBRS/IBPB on Skylake yet due to an outdated blacklist. It will be fixed soon enough). > No problems or performance losses so far. Thanks for the report! -- Henrique Holschuh