Yeah, I had that issue, although luckily I had the MSI laptop those updates came from. https://github.com/bgw/bdw-ucode-update-tool - Someone's attempt to hack together an updater for those. Unfortunately, all my experience with messing with microcode packages is on Arch where I can just stick it in my systemd-boot config as another initrd before the main one. Which I know you can do with GRUB as well, it's just GRUB's config files are hilariously complicated, IMHO.
Honestly, the lack of updates is a shame upon your hardware vendor, given that it even affects things under Windows - apparently Office 2016's installer, even.
EDIT: Nothing against Fedora, but I had to get off it as soon as possible because while I like a lot of the stuff it does as a distro, nobody'd packaged Bumblebee and CUDA in a way where you could get both on the same system (and I needed both at the time for work urgently) - all the CUDA packages had a hard dependency on a normal NVIDIA driver install. (Primarily because the guy doing it sees Bumblebee as a "dirty hack" that shouldn't be supported. Okay, buddy, you got any other options for making this hardware work in the meantime?) Arch is the only distro I've found which DOESN'T have a NVIDIA driver dependency for the CUDA package, which is pretty handy for being able to run the CUDA debugger on a laptop remotely connected to your system with an NVIDIA card.
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Re: Actually been fixed.
Date: 2016-04-15 09:31 pm (UTC)https://github.com/bgw/bdw-ucode-update-tool - Someone's attempt to hack together an updater for those.
Unfortunately, all my experience with messing with microcode packages is on Arch where I can just stick it in my systemd-boot config as another initrd before the main one. Which I know you can do with GRUB as well, it's just GRUB's config files are hilariously complicated, IMHO.
Honestly, the lack of updates is a shame upon your hardware vendor, given that it even affects things under Windows - apparently Office 2016's installer, even.
EDIT: Nothing against Fedora, but I had to get off it as soon as possible because while I like a lot of the stuff it does as a distro, nobody'd packaged Bumblebee and CUDA in a way where you could get both on the same system (and I needed both at the time for work urgently) - all the CUDA packages had a hard dependency on a normal NVIDIA driver install. (Primarily because the guy doing it sees Bumblebee as a "dirty hack" that shouldn't be supported. Okay, buddy, you got any other options for making this hardware work in the meantime?) Arch is the only distro I've found which DOESN'T have a NVIDIA driver dependency for the CUDA package, which is pretty handy for being able to run the CUDA debugger on a laptop remotely connected to your system with an NVIDIA card.