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As an example, if an >> ancient part gets removed from the microcode repo, it may still be worth >> for Linux to keep the record of its last microcode version. > > > There's even a "Removed Platforms" section in the microcode repo > changelogs that gets copied and pasted for each release. But it's not > consistently updated as platforms are removed. > > But, thanks to the magic of git, we can just look for the removed files: > > 06-55-06 CLX B0 stepping, notably gaining MSR_TSX_FORCE_ABORT rather than MSR_TSX_CTRL.  It was a giant muddle for mitigations. > 06-cf-01 EMR.  Stepping 2 still available. > 06-8f-04 > 06-8f-05 > 06-8f-06 SPR.  Steppings 7 and 8 still available. These are weird.  06-8f-08 has two blobs in it with disjoint platform flags (this is fine). However, all 3 blobs between -07 and -08 all have sigtables covering everything back to stepping 4. Arguably that's a bug for the intel form of the microcode (which is indexed on stepping), but it's just some extraneous metadata.  The rest of it is suggesting that SPR steppings 4-8 had compatible-enough microcode for them all to be patched by the same blob. > 06-ba-08 RPL. The repo has steppings 2 and 3, so I wonder what RPL stepping 8 is. > 06-86-04 > 06-86-05 SNR.  All steppings dropped, although it's apparently a mobile basestation only, so I guess it's not running Linux. ~Andrew