Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 2003 15:43:29 -0400 | Subject | microcode driver fails on PIII-Celeron | From | (Joseph Fannin) |
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The microcode driver in the kernel fails for me on my laptop with a PIII-era Celeron 900. I've tested both 2.4 and 2.5 kernels over course of a year or so; all abort with the same error when trying to load the microcode:
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=68a, pflags=32)
My amateur reading of the code leads me to think the processor might be misidentified somehow (or something, my head doesn't like bit operations).
/proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 897.366 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1773.56
FWIW, this is a Debian unstable system, using the microcode utilities as packaged for Debian. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 2500, based on the i815 chipset.
Is this a bug, or is this really not supposed to work?
-- Joseph Fannin jhf@rivenstone.net
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