Intel Microcode CPU Updates

General Discussion
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What the best way to get microcode updates from:

It looks like there is an update but I don’t see it update in /lib/firmware/intel-ucode

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Is this helpful?

You can also update your BIOS.

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Nope, it should be in package provided by clear linux team via linux-firmware

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This document touches on how Clear Linux handles firmware loading.
https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/kernel/firmware.html

It is provided by the linux-firmware packages which you can see in the Sources of the spec file:

So the answer to your question is: keep your UEFI/BIOS up-to-date and keep your Clear Linux installation up-to-date.

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Yes, I understand where it lives and how to make it, my question is why Intel not updating linux-firmware package for Clear Linux since microcode update is released by Intel 3 days ago and it’s 99% security/vulnerability patch for CPU ?

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@Shtirlic The package was updated early this morning. We’ll have it in a release as soon as we can.

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Thank you for update.