Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752152Ab2KQULT (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:11:19 -0500 Received: from mail.wdtv.com ([66.118.69.84]:54771 "EHLO mail.wdtv.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752099Ab2KQULT (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:11:19 -0500 From: Gene Heskett To: Andreas Herrmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:11:12 -0500 Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Boris Ostrovsky , hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@alien8.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1353004910-2204-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@amd.com> <201211151801.23160.gheskett@wdtv.com> <20121117195438.GB2375@tweety> In-Reply-To: <20121117195438.GB2375@tweety> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1256" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201211171511.13183.gheskett@wdtv.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2392 Lines: 59 On Saturday 17 November 2012, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >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. No clue, I didn't build it. >If not, please load manually (modprobe microcode) and what's your >distro? I did, it worked and I have now put it in rc.local for the next reboot. root@coyote:/var/spool/mail# cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS \n \l Thank you Andreas. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: is up! He who laughs last usually had to have joke explained. -- 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/