Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758671AbXF1Nvo (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:51:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758976AbXF1Nve (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:51:34 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:44480 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761281AbXF1Nvc (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:51:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4683BD56.7070707@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:53:26 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Daniel J Blueman , Shaohua Li , jamagallon@ono.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode... References: <6278d2220703221645j760a8816v4b8749ea2d60e493@mail.gmail.com> <1174610594.6598.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <6278d2220706261442u9b137c5xb6225b3f56605554@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1567 Lines: 34 Andi Kleen wrote: > "Daniel J Blueman" writes: > >> On 23/03/07, Shaohua Li wrote: >>> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +0000, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >>>> Hi Shao-hua, >>>> >>>> Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the >>>> old firmware files to the new format (eg >>>> /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from >>>> Intel (or otherwise) in this new format? >>> Yes, we are preparing the new format data files and maybe put it into a >>> new website. We will announce it when it's ready. >> It's been a while; is there any sign of the ucode updates being >> available, especially in light of the C2D/Q incorrect TLB invalidation >> + recent ucode to fix this? > > That microcode update is not needed on any recent Linux kernel; it flushes > the TLBs in a way that is fine. > Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/