Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:54:38 +0100 | From | Andreas Herrmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors |
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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.
If not, please load manually (modprobe microcode) and what's your distro?
Thanks,
Andreas
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