A microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 7.

El-errata: ELEA-2020-2743 Oracle Linux 7 microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

Oracle Linux Enhancement Advisory ELEA-2020-2743

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELEA-2020-2743.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/microcode_ctl-2.1-61.10.0.1.el7_8.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2:2.1-61.10.0.1]
- remove no longer appropriate caveats for 06-2d-07 and 06-55-04
- for Intel, do not trigger load if on-disk microcode is not an update
[Orabug: 30634727]
- set early_microcode="no" in virtualized guests to avoid early load
bugs [Orabug: 30618736]
- do not late load prior to 3.10.0
- ensure late loading fixes are present on 4.1.12-* and 4.14.35-*
- enable early and late load for 5.4.17-*
- enable early loading for 06-4f-01

[2:2.1-61.10]
- Update Intel CPU microcode to microcode-20200609 release (#1849058):
- Fixed a typo in the release note file.

[2:2.1-61.9]
- Enable 06-2d-07 (SNB-E/EN/EP) caveat by default (#1849065).

[2:2.1-61.8]
- Enable 06-55-04 (SKL-X/W) caveat by default.

[2:2.1-61.7]
- Do not update 06-4e-03 (SKL-U/Y) and 06-5e-03 (SKL-H/S/Xeon E3 v5) to
revision
0xdc, use 0xd6 by default (#).