Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 May 2011 13:30:17 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision |
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> wrote:
> > Sure we have /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/microcode/version, but > > that's both privileged to get > > Not only that but you have to load the ucode driver to be able to > read it. /proc/cpuinfo looks like the easiest and most generic > place.
Indeed, that's a good point - i sometimes boot kernels without the microcode driver built in, so then no microcode gets loaded. If i report a weird bug then whoever looks at my bug report might notice the ancient ucode version number in /proc/cpuinfo.
Thanks,
Ingo
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