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I hate to say it, but I'm also finding myself scratching my head at this one. I've randomly chosen 3 separate Xeon E5 family processors that are in production, and _each time_ I look at the intel-ucode files, _absolutely none_ of the family-model-stepping outputs from lscpu/dmidecode match.

I'd guess that the format above (using HSW-ULT Cx/Dx as an example), that 01:72 means stepping 1 through 72?

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Just an update in case that someone is experiencing something similar.

1.) If using RHEL, most likely the latest microcode updated offered via RHEL entitlements will contain the requisite updates.

2.) Slapping myself over this one(!), but the family, model, and stepping ID's need to be changed to hex. I confirmed this via inspecting a node which was patched using the latest updates (kernel & microcode) from RHEL; I am now able to verify that the majority of the microcode offered by Intel appears to be ready to go.

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