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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors
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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.

Cheers, Gene
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