The talk covers peculiarities related to delivery of microcode for Intel IA-32 (x86 and x86-64) CPUs and the way they are addressed in RHEL. This includes: - implementation of Intel IA-32 CPU microcode update loading in the Linux kernel; - packaging of the microcode update files in Fedora and RHEL; - the reasons for maintaining a separate to linux-firmware package; - handling of stability issues related to microcode updates; - current issues with microcode updates packaging in Fedora and RHEL, as well as their possible solutions.
