From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Don Slutz Subject: Re: [xen-unstable test] 57852: regressions - FAIL Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:18:21 -0400 Message-ID: <5578634D.7050006@Gmail.com> References: <1433493915.7108.138.camel@citrix.com> <5571814C02000078000812F1@mail.emea.novell.com> <1433495266.7108.145.camel@citrix.com> <5571858C020000780008132E@mail.emea.novell.com> <1433501300.7108.208.camel@citrix.com> <557569610200007800081D4C@mail.emea.novell.com> <1433753590.7108.392.camel@citrix.com> <557579500200007800081DF0@mail.emea.novell.com> <1433755652.7108.405.camel@citrix.com> <1433765763.7108.482.camel@citrix.com> <1433838390.7108.523.camel@citrix.com> <5576CE2602000078000827F6@mail.emea.novell.com> <1433926213.30003.2.camel@citrix.com> <557821330200007800082F1C@mail.emea.novell.com> <1433934087.30003.32.camel@citrix.com> <55784041020000780008304A@mail.emea.novell.com> <1433940966.30003.81.camel@citrix.com> <1433946842.30003.89.camel@c itrix.com> <55787AF6020000780008331A@mail.emea.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2ihv-0003bP-03 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:18:27 +0000 Received: by qgf75 with SMTP id 75so17910730qgf.1 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:18:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55787AF6020000780008331A@mail.emea.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich , Ian Campbell Cc: Andrew Cooper , ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 06/10/15 11:59, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 10.06.15 at 16:34, wrote: >> For Intel I'm less sure, I've got microcode-20150121.tgz containing >> microcode.dat. Is that just to be placed at >> kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin and done, or is there some >> processing needed? > > The full blob (albeit usually named microcode.bin; microcode.dat > ordinarily is a text file) can be used if so desired, but there's also a > tool to split it into more fine grained chunks. > >> I've got a thing called iucode-tool in my hand from a Debian package if >> I need it. > > Or maybe there are multiple different tools - the one I know about > is commonly named intel-microcode2ucode taking microcode.dat as > input and producing microcode.bin as well as many individual > -- blobs. > Well, my version did not produce microcode.bin. Based on: ... processor : 7 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31265L @ 2.40GHz stepping : 7 ... and grub2 (Not sure for ucode=scan): 1) intel-microcode2ucode microcode.dat 2a) cp intel-ucode/06-2a-07 /boot/microcode.bin or 2b) cat intel-ucode/* >/boot/microcode.bin 3) Make sure "ucode=-1" is in GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN 4) /sbin/grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg And you see microcode loaded on the serial console. -Don Slutz > Jan > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >