Bug 706536

Summary: Microcode bundled with microcode_ctl is stale
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: advax
Component: microcode_ctlAssignee: Anton Arapov <anton>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 5.5CC: nobody
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Description advax 2011-05-20 20:35:22 UTC 
Description of problem:

The microcode for Intel and AMD chips included with the microcode_ctl package is out-of-date, and is never updated in RedHat updates.

Microcode is no longer being repackaged at http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/ since it is available from Intel directly.

Intel release 2011-04-27
RHEL 5.6      2011-03-06
RHEL 5.5      2010-03-30
RHEL 5.4      2009-09-02
RHEL 5.3      2008-05-21
RHEL 5.2      2008-05-21

AMD release   2011-01-11
Fedora 14     2009-10-09
Comment 1 Anton Arapov 2011-05-23 06:57:36 UTC 
This is not true either as bug 706534. All the supported by the Red Hat releases has the latest available microcode.