Hi,
I have already sent this to Alan but some people on #kernelnewbies on irc
complained about this Oops so I decided to send to all. (on the first
round I cc'd:[email protected])
Regards,
Tigran
diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/Documentation/Changes ucode-2.2/Documentation/Changes
--- linux/Documentation/Changes Wed Dec 27 07:32:10 2000
+++ ucode-2.2/Documentation/Changes Wed Dec 27 07:46:42 2000
@@ -529,8 +529,8 @@
chmod 0644 /dev/cpu/microcode
as root before you can use this. You'll probably also want to
-get the user-space microcode_ctl utility to use with this. The utility is
-available at:
+get the user-space microcode_ctl utility (and, obviously, the microcode
+data itself) to use with this. Both are available at:
http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode
@@ -539,29 +539,8 @@
alias char-major-10-184 microcode
-to your /etc/modules.conf file.
-
-
-Intel IA32 microcode
-====================
-
-A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode,
-accessible as both a devfs regular file and as a normal (misc)
-character device. If you are not using devfs you may need to:
-
-mkdir /dev/cpu
-mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184
-chmod 0644 /dev/cpu/microcode
-
-as root before you can use this. You'll probably also want to
-get the user-space microcode_ctl utility to use with this.
-
-If you have compiled the driver as a module you may need to add
-the following line:
-
-alias char-major-10-184 microcode
-
-to your /etc/modules.conf file.
+to your /etc/modules.conf file, unless you are using recent enough
version
+of modutils which knows about this by default.
Where to get the files
diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c ucode-2.2/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Wed Dec 27 07:32:10 2000
+++ ucode-2.2/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Wed Dec 27 07:52:07 2000
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
* Pentium 4 support + backported fixes from 2.4
* 1.07 13 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian <[email protected]>
* More bugfixes backported from 2.4
+ * 1.08 27 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian <[email protected]>
+ * Fix: X86_FEATURE_30 was used incorrectly (in a 2.4 manner)
*/
#include <linux/init.h>
@@ -49,7 +51,7 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
-#define MICROCODE_VERSION "1.07"
+#define MICROCODE_VERSION "1.08"
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Intel CPU (IA-32) microcode update driver");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Tigran Aivazian <[email protected]>");
@@ -161,7 +163,7 @@
req->err = 1; /* be pessimistic */
if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL || c->x86 < 6 ||
- test_bit(X86_FEATURE_30, &c->x86_capability)) { /* IA64 */
+ (c->x86_capability & X86_FEATURE_30) ) { /* IA64 */
printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: CPU%d not a capable Intel processor\n", cpu_num);
return;
}
@@ -307,8 +309,8 @@
memset(mc_applied, 0, mc_fsize);
kfree(mc_applied);
mc_applied = NULL;
- printk(KERN_WARNING "microcode: freed %d bytes\n", bytes);
mc_fsize = 0;
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "microcode: freed %d bytes\n", bytes);
up(µcode_sem);
return 0;
}