Re: Early microcode not being loaded

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Mon Sep 01 2014 - 16:18:06 EST


On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Conrad Kostecki wrote:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1857432 Jul 18 17:01 kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin

That file is way too big. In fact, it is exactly the size of the newest
".dat" file from Intel. The kernel doesn't grok that text format, the
microcode updates have to be converted to binary format, first.

I suggest you use "iucode_tool -S --write-earlyfw=ucode.cpio" to generate
your ucode.cpio.

You can find iucode-tool at:
https://gitorious.org/iucode-tool/pages/Home

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Henrique Holschuh
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