Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:58:00 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: print previous microcode revision during early update |
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:45:35PM +0100, Petr Oros wrote: > During time of facing the Spectre vulnerability and the requirement of handling > different microcode updates, it has shown, that it would be useful to have > additional information which microcode version was in BIOS, if the early-update > routine will apply an update.
Dmesg tells you if the update was applied or not.
And if you really wanna know the old microcode revision, you can boot with "dis_ucode_ldr" and do "grep microcode /proc/cpuinfo".
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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