From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:12:14 -0400, Mike Small wrote:   
      
   > So you may have seen this security update for CVE-2023-20593. If you   
   > don't have that chip or AMD at all do you skip it? Any good reason to   
   > take it?   
      
   Usually, I install all security patches routinely after some basic   
   testing that they do not break anything. However, there are some patches   
   that I do not install:   
      
   1) Packages which I have removed, installing a CUPS package would break   
   by LPRng installation.   
      
   2) Updates which I really don't need and maybe earlier have been prone to   
   break something. An example of such a package is glibc-zoneinfo.   
      
   So what about the kernel-firmware package? I will not update any 14.2   
   system, not only because I don't have any AMD CPU, but mostly because the   
   kernel-firmware package has become kind of bloated since I initially   
   installed 14.2. Since a few years back the later kernel-firmware packages   
   overfills the limited amont of space on my rather small root partitions.   
      
   On my Slackware 15.0 systems I have bigger root partitions and plan to   
   evaluate the update even though I do not have any AMD CPUs now. If I   
   would get an AMD CPU it would be good to have an up to date system.   
      
   Unfortunately the kernel firmware package needs to be evaluated as   
   upstream providers only provide one such package and during the years   
   that latest package has turned out to break support for different   
   hardware with different kernel versions. Maybe they would need to make   
   the package even more bloated to support all still supported kernel   
   versions. Maybe they would need to branch off different firmware package   
   versions for different kernel versions.   
      
   I am now on vacation, so I will not be able to evaluate the package for   
   my 15.0 installations until a few weeks.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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