-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-a596f3c268 2016-08-17 19:57:56.764075 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : microcode_ctl Product : Fedora 23 Version : 2.1 Release : 13.fc23 URL : http://fedorahosted.org/microcode_ctl Summary : Tool to transform and deploy CPU microcode update for x86 Description : The microcode_ctl utility is a companion to the microcode driver written by Tigran Aivazian tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk.
The microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system boot i.e. it doesn't reflash your cpu permanently, reboot and it reverts back to the old microcode.
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You want to check it on Intel skylake cpus, previous version led to the stuck boot process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1353103 - Kernel 4.5.7-202 doesn't boot on Samsung Notebook 9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353103 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update microcode_ctl' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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