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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:01:52PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 11:10 -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> > > Are there plans to make the corresponding microcode support available?
> > > 
> > 
> > The microcode patches should be released soon.
> 
> In the meantime, Lenovo has started issuing BIOS/UEFI updates which include
> microcode updates for this.
> 
> See for example for the ThinkPad X250
> 
> https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n10ur16w.txt
> https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n10ur16w.iso
> 
> iucode-tool -L -tr n10ur16w.iso |grep 2017-11
>   001/020: sig 0x000306d4, pf_mask 0xc0, 2017-11-17, rev 0x0028, size 18432

That's been out for a while now:
	https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27337/Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-File

so I really don't think this is an "update" yet.

I saw a bios update for my Dell laptop dated December 28, but it didn't
seem to change anything with the cpuids or microcode status from before.

A hard answer to what "soon" means here would be nice to get, as I'm
seeing a lot of misunderstanding floating around right now :(

thanks,

greg k-h