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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:40:03 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:29:58PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

 > No, because cat is using 4K chunks and the data has to be written in one
 > large chunk, like this:
 > 
 > # dd if=microcode of=/dev/cpu/microcode bs=141312 count=1
 > 
 > This actually works fine but you need to convert microcode data from human
 > readable (what Intel distribute) to binary format first. Easily done with
 > microcode_ctl utility.

What about the dumps Christian Ludhoff put at ftp.sandpile.org/mcupdate ?
These are binary data, but are they in the right format to be used ?
I'm curious if these are newer than the ones described in microcode.dat,
but haven't had time to dig through the dates on them.

		Dave

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