Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:12:11 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Q: Seeing the microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo |
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:35:40PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > Hi! > > After several reboots due to memory errors after excellent power-saving of Linux on a HP DL380G7 with Intel Xeon 5650 processors (all in on memory bank), I found out the errate "BD104" and "BD123". The former should be fixed in a microcode revision "15H". > > Now I wonder what microcode revision my CPUs currently have. /proc/cpuinfo doesn't show that, and the microcode update is a bit cryptic: > > kernel: [ 44.422912] microcode: CPU23 sig=0x206c2, pf=0x1, revision=0x14 > > Does that mean the revision is 0x14 BEFORE or AFTER the microcode update? > > Wouldn't you agree that seeing the microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo would be nice?
Well, you must be using an old-ish kernel because the microcode revision infact *is* in /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 1 ... stepping : 0 microcode : 0x5000028
This is on 3.6-rc1 and that functionality is upstream since 3.2.
HTH.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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