(BCC'd to #929073 to avoid dragging the BTS into this thread).
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> schrieb:
Should it be regarded as a bug in the intel-microcode package that
it doesn't
have this update that is "easy enough to source"? Or do you mean
"easy to get
but not licensed for distribution"?
This is covered by #929073, which links to a PDF by Intel (which
documents
that Intel won't ship an update for your CPU).
I'd like to add that:
We do not, and will not, distribute in non-free's intel-microcode
anything we did not get from Intel (or from someone else who got it from
Intel with permission to redistribute). This ensures all microcode
updates we distribute in non-free are under a license that allows
redistribution.
Note that, as long as there are very good reasons to do so, I am willing
to distribute microcode updates that are no longer being distributed[1],
since we did receive it with an appropriate license that allows
redistribution in the first place.
Also, one can place whatever microcode updates they got from wherever to
/usr/share/misc/intel-microcode*.bin at their own risk and
responsibility, and the intel-microcode package will attempt to use it.
[1] as in: "they were being distributed by Intel on the Linux microcode
update package in the past, and for more than one release of Intel's
microcode update package".