Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:11:12 -0500 |
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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 <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com> >> > >> >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.
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