stable/11 r329462 - Meltdown/Spectre MFC questions

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 02/18/2018 09:50 PM, Eric A. Borisch wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com <mailto:tundra at tundraware.com>> wrote:
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>     On 02/18/2018 05:47 PM, David Marec wrote:
>     > #cpucontrol -u -v /dev/cpuctl0
>     > cpucontrol: skipping /usr/local/share/cpucontrol/m32306c3_00000022.fw of rev 0x22: up to date
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> 
>     While we're on the subject ... where does one find these microcode updates
>     anyway.  On a 10.4-STABLE system, the command above blows out because
>     there is no director /usr/local/share/cpucontrol ... so I am missing
>     the magic to get it populated.
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> It’s provided by the sysutils/devcpu-data port.
> 
>  - Eric
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> 


Yes thanks, I finally tripped across that myself :)  Do we have any insight on
whether this addresses the latest vulnerabilities?

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