Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765165AbXF1Ryk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:54:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761309AbXF1Ryc (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:54:32 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:51266 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761250AbXF1Ryb (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:54:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=N4WA0iP5Yq0abRq6W/Dc1KZTFM3CEE1IBxhKjBH0qo/rjkSe1Zkjr/EmqTQ3jUpsxGvSvRSv1rRwuICDDSBpYpfSLBnS4Ada6vJANqRg6SGUJPGA0axoKOU+yPaf2W+QU15ULCjPrC1F1p3wH4RhI/WkMOENKCTu5DeZxQ/J9BU= Message-ID: <6278d2220706281054m476873ffn32375725fe5c4f88@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:54:29 +0100 From: "Daniel J Blueman" To: "Chuck Ebbert" Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode... Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" , "Bill Davidsen" , "Andi Kleen" , "Shaohua Li" , jamagallon@ono.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, "Linux Kernel" In-Reply-To: <4683EF87.1050303@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6278d2220703221645j760a8816v4b8749ea2d60e493@mail.gmail.com> <1174610594.6598.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <6278d2220706261442u9b137c5xb6225b3f56605554@mail.gmail.com> <4683BD56.7070707@tmr.com> <1183039975.14676.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4683EF87.1050303@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1691 Lines: 45 On 28/06/07, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 06/28/2007 10:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: [snip] > >> 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? > > > > First of all, Linux has microcode updates as well. Some of the more > > hypish news-bulletins just conveniently "forgot" about this. Basically > > all distributions ship them, so users who use the distro update tools > > get these automatically. And the update mentioned has been shipping for > > a while (in version 1.17). > > Fedora 6 has version 1.13 > Fedora 7 also has 1.13 > RHEL 5 has 1.15 > Debian stable has 1.15 (9 Oct 2006) > Suse 10.1 has 1.13 You've got to give credit to Intel for providing the ucode updates though. The Ubuntu/Debian microcode.ctl package fetches a new version upon installation/reconfiguration [1]; I guess if there were ucode updates that resolved stability/vulnerability issues with Linux, the security team could release an updated package with new default microcode. However, I think the package isn't installed per default in Ubuntu 7.04 ia32/x86-64... Daniel --- [1] # dpkg-reconfigure microcode.ctl Local microcode is old, you need an update. Trying to download an new version of microcode. Now attempting to download microcode. microcode downloaded sucessfully -- Daniel J Blueman - 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/