Please consider shipping April 2022 microcode updates

[Tom Reynolds]

In April this year, AMD published CPU microcode updates. These have since found their way to most Linux distributions' default release channels. Ubuntu does not currently ship them.

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There is no (public?) statement on what these updates do (or what they do not do).

There is no (public?) indication that they have security impact (or that they have not).

Hopefully AMD can do better on this in the future (says an Ubuntu and AMD CPU user, not someone currently in a B2B affiliation with either of these businesses).

Please consider testing, and eventually shipping, these updates (if not considered, yet).

Please design and establish a suitable process that will automatically be triggered on future microcode update releases (if not present, yet).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

This was fixed in Kinetic by the 3.20220411.1ubuntu1 upload, updating the bug as such.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.