[Bug 1979825] [NEW] Please consider shipping April 2022 microcode updates

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In April this year, AMD published CPU microcode updates. These have
since found their way to most Linux distributions' default release
channels. Ubuntu does not currently ship them.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220408195539.168011-1-john.allen@amd.com/
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/a/amd64-microcode/amd64-microcode_3.20220411.1_changelog

There is no (public?) statement on what these updates do (or what they
do not do).

There is no (public?) indication that they have security impact (or that
they have not).

Hopefully AMD can do better on this in the future (says an Ubuntu and
AMD CPU user, not someone currently in a B2B affiliation with either of
these businesses).


Please consider testing, and eventually shipping, these updates (if not considered, yet). 

Please design and establish a suitable process that will automatically
be triggered on future microcode update releases (if not present, yet).

** Affects: amd64-microcode (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: amd64-microcode (Ubuntu Jammy)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bionic focal fr-2630 jammy kinetic
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Please consider shipping April 2022 microcode updates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1979825
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