Bug 27633

Suggested advisory:
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The updated package fixes a regression that prevents certain processors in the Intel Tiger Lake family from booting successfully.

References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4628-2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27597
https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/releases/tag/microcode-20201118
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Updated package in nonfree/updates_testing:
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microcode-0.20201118-1.mga7.nonfree

from SRPM:
microcode-0.20201118-1.mga7.nonfree.src.rpm

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Assignee: bugsquad => qa-bugs
Source RPM: (none) => microcode-0.20201110-1.mga7.nonfree.src.rpm

MGA7-64 MATE on Peaq C1011 - Intel Atom processor
No installation issues
Rebooted after installation, no problems with different file types, network acess.
Good enough here.

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

mga7, x86_64
Intel Core i9-7900X type: MT MCP

These are all the references in the latest journal after reboot.
Nov 19 18:02:11 canopus kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x2006a08, date = 2020-06-16
Nov 19 18:02:11 canopus kernel: microcode: sig=0x50654, pf=0x4, revision=0x2006a08
Nov 19 18:02:11 canopus kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
Nov 19 18:02:13 canopus kernel: em28xx 1-4:1.0:         microcode start address = 0x0004, boot configuration = 0x01

System continues to function normally.

CC: (none) => tarazed25

mga7, x86_64 Dell XPS13 netbook

Intel Core i7-7500U type: MT MCP

Nov 19 18:21:28 hamal kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xde, date = 2020-05-27
Nov 19 18:21:28 hamal kernel: microcode: sig=0x806e9, pf=0x80, revision=0xde
Nov 19 18:21:28 hamal kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.

At a guess it looks like this hardware is not affected.  It continues to run nicely anyway.

mga7, x64

Intel Core i7-4790 type: MT MCP
Everything behaving as expected after reboot.

(In reply to Nicolas Salguero from comment #1)
> Suggested advisory:
> ========================
> 
> The updated package fixes a regression that prevents certain processors in
> the Intel Tiger Lake family from booting successfully.
> 
> References:
> https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4628-2
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27597
> https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/releases/
> tag/microcode-20201118
> ========================
> 
> Updated package in nonfree/updates_testing:
> ========================
> microcode-0.20201118-1.mga7.nonfree
> 
> from SRPM:
> microcode-0.20201118-1.mga7.nonfree.src.rpm


We haven't received complains about this previous update in Bugsquad.
Nor, in MLO french forums.

Also, this update is silently installed on a Intel Core i5 6600K Skylake.
If anyone with a Tiger Lake processor should install this ASAP.

Validating.
Advisory pushed to SVN.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK
Keywords: (none) => advisory, validated_update
CC: (none) => ouaurelien, sysadmin-bugs

Intel CPU: i7-3770 OK
 No problem here a few hours on my workstation, with BOINC exercising the CPU and GPU full wile I surf bugs, edit photos, libreoffice, etc.

CC: (none) => fri

(In reply to Aurelien Oudelet from comment #6)

> 
> We haven't received complains about this previous update in Bugsquad.
> Nor, in MLO french forums.
> 


That's because it only affects a subset of Tiger Lake, namely the TGL-UP3 so maybe not many Mageia users even have that hw

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2020-0234.html

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED