All Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors users please read this

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https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html

This may be why many using these processors see some problems randomly

:open_mouth:

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Is there a fix coming soon to OpenSUSE Leap 42.2?

http://software.opensuse.org/package/ucode-intel which supposedly fixes this bug for some affected CPUs seems to be voluntary to install and the official one doesn’t seem updated.
20170511 and later should fix the “hyperthread bug” for some CPUs according to the debian message but official release for Leap 42.2 is 20160714.
Would be great if the distro developers fixed this for everyone having the affected CPUs.

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This is quite confusing… According to the Hardware Info app my CPU has hyperthreading (flags: … ht …etc) BUT according to Intel’s website it doesn’t…
CPU = Intel i5-6300HQ (quad, 2.3GHz)

…So which one is it ?

Also, my BIOS has no option to disable it that way - in fact, it doesn’t have any option besides UEFI and boot order or so.

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An update has been submitted and should be released in the next days.