From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060105 Fedora/1.5-1 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: The copy of the x86 CPU microcode in the kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.69 packages is lagging the Intel releases by at least 2 revisions. The current microcode is "05Jan2006" and can be gotten at the URL noted above. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.69 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Additional info: FYI, the current Fedora Core 4 microcode_ctl package is also out of date, though not by as much as the RHEL package.
Even newer firmware is now available: http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/microcode_ctl-1.14.tar.gz
I'll try to push out a new package soon, suggesting for a future update release.
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given RHEL4U5 is pushed back 'til a later date, can this still be considered for rhel4u5?
We'll need a kernel patch (working on it) for RHEL4 in order to do this since the new microcode updates can be smaller than the smallest size update we used to accept in the kernel's microcode loader... Jon.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196993 ***