Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16hprocessors

From: Andreas Herrmann
Date: Sat Nov 17 2012 - 14:54:35 EST


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:01:22PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 15 November 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> Add valid patch size for family 16h processors
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >Is this something that needs to go to -stable ?
>
> IMO, and if I had an oar in this water, yes. Its been missing since the
> Intel folks started playing with it a couple years back up the log. I
> have the amd_ucode files in my /lib/firmware tree,
>
> root@coyote:/opt/os9# ls -l /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/
> total 76
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 642 2012-01-17 11:50 INSTALL
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9987 2012-01-17 11:50 LICENSE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12404 2012-01-17 11:50 microcode_amd.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1526 2012-01-17 11:50 microcode_amd.bin.README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2644 2012-01-17 11:50 microcode_amd_fam15h.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510 2012-01-17 11:50
> microcode_amd_fam15h.bin.README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2012 2009-01-20 04:48 microcode_amd.phenom-V83
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15020 2012-01-17 11:50 microcode_amd_solaris.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1685 2012-01-17 11:50
> microcode_amd_solaris.bin.README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6227 2012-01-17 11:50 README
>
> but I can't recall the last time I saw the code sign in during dmesg.

Is the microcode module actually loaded on your system?
If yes,
is CONFIG_MICROCODE_AMD set?
If yes, please provide dmesg.

If not, please load manually (modprobe microcode) and what's your
distro?


Thanks,

Andreas
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