@SuperDicq @Suiseiseki @dushman
>It's not necessarily broken, it's just older. Older doesn't mean broken...
In this case it usually does, because microcode does in fact have security vulns. It's stupid, I know. For example without a proper microcode update, some speculative execution vulns cannot be fully patched. Kernel level mitigations do work, but some rely on microcode to do it's things properly.