Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752152Ab2KQTyq (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:54:46 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:56968 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752058Ab2KQTyp (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:54:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:54:38 +0100 From: Andreas Herrmann To: Gene Heskett Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Boris Ostrovsky , hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors Message-ID: <20121117195438.GB2375@tweety> References: <1353004910-2204-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@amd.com> <20121115204503.GB18032@khazad-dum.debian.net> <201211151801.23160.gheskett@wdtv.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201211151801.23160.gheskett@wdtv.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1859 Lines: 47 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 > > > >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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/