Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New WorldOrder firmware...

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:17:16 BST, Tigran Aivazian said:
> > Hi Valdis,
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > I built the -rc8-mmotd kernel, and built it with 'CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
> =n'.
> > > Lo and behold, the microcode.ko was now doing a request_firmware for
> > > 'intel-ucode/06-0f-06' (which makes sense, the Core2 Duo in this laptop is
> > > family 6, model 15, stepping 6).  However, what I had in /lib/firmware was
> > > the Intel-distributed 'microcode.dat' with updates for all the CPUs (which
> > > used to work in times past).
> > >
> > > What's the magic incantation to take the microcode.dat and create something
> > > that the firmware driver is willing to use, or is this all borked up and
> > > I need to do a major rethink or fix my config?
> >
> > that's because it expects the Intel-supplied microcode data and you are
> > using the old style microcode.dat data.
>
> I fed it the stuff I downloaded today from this URL:
>
> http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2643&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go!
>
> which gets me a microcode-20080401.dat that does the same thing.  Is there
> some *other* Intel-supplied microcode data I should be getting instead?

Oh, sorry, I assumed that Intel distribute the data in the format that 
driver expects.

Kind regards
Tigran
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