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[-] ouch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The Linux kernel would maintain a list of the latest Intel microcode versions for each CPU family, which is based on the data from the Intel microcode GitHub repository. In turn this list would need to be kept updated with new Linux kernel releases and as Intel pushes out new CPU microcode files.

Sounds like that would be outdated for everyone without a rolling distro.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Sounds like a user space application, there's no place for this in the kernel. So would you need to upgrade kennel and reboot to update the list? Nonsense.

[-] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, methinks this will be one of those alerts pretty much everyone will be like "yeah, yeah, I know" and click to silence those notifications.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Stable distros can and will backport security fixes. Good ones that is.

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