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Bug#886367: partial fix uploaded

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 23:18:49 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Intel has released several updates already, but not all of them AFAIK.
>
> These microcode updates are of little impact until the kernel changes to
> activate the new MSRs are deployed. But they do mess with conditional
> jumps and LFENCE.
>
> Anyway, uploading a partial, unofficial set of updates to unstable to
> close the bug. Several processors are still missing. I expect an
> official release from Intel soon, hopefully with updates for everything.
>
> Everyone should look for firmware updates, the usual good vendors
> already have them out, or will have them out by the end of the next
> week.

Sorry for the question, this is not exactly the right place but I know
of no better one:

Do microcode updates delivered by this package have the same effect as
BIOS/Firmware updates? Or do they complement each other?

At our organization, we unfortunately have a large number of different
machines from different vendors, and updating the BIOS on all of them
will be a very time consuming task. So I'd like to ask whether we can
expect the same protection from updated microcode and kernel packages.

Thanks,
Andreas

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Bug#886367: partial fix uploaded Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein@gmx.com> - 2018-01-15 11:40 +0100
  Bug#886367: partial fix uploaded Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2018-01-15 13:30 +0100

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