On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:01 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just gone through the procedure to update the microcode on this > haswell > i7 box, but the version is the same now as before today's portage update. > On > looking again at the output of 'emerge intel-microcode' I see the date > hasn't changed: > > intel-ucode/06-3f-02 > signature: 0x306f2 > flags: 0x6f > revision: 0x3b > date: 2017-11-17 > size: 33792 > > It looks as though my CPU hasn't been fixed yet. Is that right? > That's odd - i wonder why the checksum of the file changed; # grep 06-3f-02 intel-firmware-md5s-9jan2018.txt intel-firmware-md5s-10jan2018.txt intel-firmware-md5s-9jan2018.txt:194c362f2c45d8a45e2ab58d5f2c9749 /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-3f-02 intel-firmware-md5s-10jan2018.txt:b6e684762e7212054271c9441048fa93 /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-3f-02