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intel-microcode on an AMD system with Debian question (piefed.social)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a system with an AMD Ryzen 9 CPU and AMD Radeon RX 6800 GPU running Debian 12. Today there is a security update recommended for the intel-microcode. Checking for updates reveals my system believes it needs the update, but I am not informed enough to understand why/if that is true. I managed to find a Debian article on microcode and it seems to indicate it is specific to either intel or AMD. Should I trust the system update and follow through? I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My proficiency with Debian is likely not where it needs to be it seems.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you don't have an Intel CPU, then you shouldn't need it. At least, I think it's only for CPUs and not for other intel-based devices (NIC, graphics, whatever).

It's prompting for upgrade because it's already installed. ~~It's recommended (but not required) by initramfs-tools, so that's probably why it's installed (recommended packages are installed by default).~~ oops, read that wrong. Intel-microcode recommends initramfs-tools.

You may want to run

apt-rdepends intel-microcode

to see what pulled it in.

But you should be able to uninstall it, and then it won't prompt you any more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you very kindly. This was quite helpful.