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posted by takyon on Monday June 26 2017, @09:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the skylake-axed dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

During April and May, Intel started updating processor documentation with a new errata note, and over the weekend we learned why: Skylake and Kaby Lake silicon has a microcode bug.

The errata is described in detail on the Debian mailing list, and affects Skylake and Kaby Lake Intel Core processors (in desktop, high-end desktop, embedded and mobile platforms), Xeon v5 and v6 server processors, and some Pentium models.

The Debian advisory says affected users need to disable hyper-threading "immediately" in their BIOS or UEFI settings, because the processors can "dangerously misbehave when hyper-threading is enabled."

Symptoms can include "application and system misbehaviour, data corruption, and data loss".

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, who authored the Debian post, notes that all operating systems, not only Linux, are subject to the bug.

Also at Tom's Hardware and Ars Technica.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 26 2017, @10:18PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday June 26 2017, @10:18PM (#531600) Journal

    Machines with Linux could at least be expected to stay online. Seems it may be better to buy an old processor..

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