[Backport release-24.05] microcodeIntel: 20240531 -> 20240813

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Bot-based backport to release-24.05, triggered by a label in #334505.

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[evilmav]

@Atemu do we need anything else to merge this?

[Atemu]

No, just waiting a bit for complaints on unstable. If there's none in a week's time or so, we can merge.

[felixsinger]

Let's get this in?

[evilmav]

No, just waiting a bit for complaints on unstable. If there's none in a week's time or so, we can merge.

Isn't this the update fixing the self-destruct through elevated voltages issue on the 13th gen CPUs though? If so, delay might cause hardware degradation.

[felixsinger]

No, just waiting a bit for complaints on unstable. If there's none in a week's time or so, we can merge.

Isn't this the update fixing the self-destruct through elevated voltages issue on the 13th gen CPUs though? If so, delay might cause hardware degradation.

No, that specific update is not applicable from OS level but it needs to be applied much earlier by the BIOS firmware. So Intel doesn't want to pubiish that update in order to avoid "confusion" and thus open source firmware projects like coreboot are not able to ship the update. See intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files#81

However, the new release also contains updates with security fixes.

[Atemu]

Thanks for the ping, I haven't heard of any issues that could reasonably be caused by the microcode.