ELEA-2020-2743

ELEA-2020-2743 - microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

Type:	ENHANCEMENT
Impact:	NA
Release Date:	2020-06-25

Description

[2:2.1-61.10.0.1]
- remove no longer appropriate caveats for 06-2d-07 and 06-55-04
- for Intel, do not trigger load if on-disk microcode is not an update [Orabug: 30634727]
- set early_microcode='no' in virtualized guests to avoid early load bugs [Orabug: 30618736]
- do not late load prior to 3.10.0
- ensure late loading fixes are present on 4.1.12-* and 4.14.35-*
- enable early and late load for 5.4.17-*
- enable early loading for 06-4f-01

[2:2.1-61.10]
- Update Intel CPU microcode to microcode-20200609 release (#1849058):
- Fixed a typo in the release note file.

[2:2.1-61.9]
- Enable 06-2d-07 (SNB-E/EN/EP) caveat by default (#1849065).

[2:2.1-61.8]
- Enable 06-55-04 (SKL-X/W) caveat by default.

[2:2.1-61.7]
- Do not update 06-4e-03 (SKL-U/Y) and 06-5e-03 (SKL-H/S/Xeon E3 v5) to revision
0xdc, use 0xd6 by default (#).

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	sha256	Superseded By Advisory	Channel Label
Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.src.rpm	b36872886eb044f7817342b9c9672bc3e23e728275f29af14d7899534b91e307	ELEA-2023-7283	ol7_x86_64_latest
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.src.rpm	b36872886eb044f7817342b9c9672bc3e23e728275f29af14d7899534b91e307	ELEA-2023-7283	ol7_x86_64_u8_patch
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_19.2.17.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_19.2.18.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_19.2.19.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_19.3.11.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_19.3.12.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_19.3.13.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_20.1.1.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_20.1.2.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	exadata_dbserver_20.1.3.0.0_x86_64_base
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	ol7_x86_64_latest
	microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm	835b1fdb419270037d117bc009ba3378caf2383d850e2fe764eb670dc9552a2e	ELEA-2023-7283	ol7_x86_64_u8_patch

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