Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:29:19 -0200 | From | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors |
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:35:17PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > One possibility is that BIOS already incorporated all patches (which > > typically is the case) and so the driver doesn't have to do anything. > > /proc/cpuinfo contains ucode version and the processor's f/m/s, which > is enough information to tell us whether your old phenom needs ucode > patching.
Maybe, however F/M/S information is incomplete, not to mention trying to rebuild the proper processor signature from it is anything but forward-proof. For Intel, it is also useless, you also need the processor flags...
If /proc/cpuinfo is to be useful for microcode purposes, it should add a microcode signature line, with CPUID(1).EAX, and on Intel processors, also a second parameter with the processor flags mask (I don't know if AMD needs something else other than CPUID(1).EAX).
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