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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:30:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110525113017.GE30983@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110525105057.GA21830@gere.osrc.amd.com>


* Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> wrote:

> > Sure we have /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/microcode/version, but 
> > that's both privileged to get
> 
> Not only that but you have to load the ucode driver to be able to 
> read it. /proc/cpuinfo looks like the easiest and most generic 
> place.

Indeed, that's a good point - i sometimes boot kernels without the 
microcode driver built in, so then no microcode gets loaded. If i 
report a weird bug then whoever looks at my bug report might notice 
the ancient ucode version number in /proc/cpuinfo.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 23:03 [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision Andi Kleen
2011-05-24 23:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, intel: Use cpu_update for Atom errata check Andi Kleen
2011-05-25  6:59   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 23:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] coretemp: Get microcode revision from cpu_data Andi Kleen
2011-05-24 23:58   ` Yu, Fenghua
2011-05-25  0:39   ` [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision Fenghua Yu
     [not found] ` <BANLkTikoa494-bRWtbbXuE6eqLuH0ZPUTg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <493994B35A117E4F832F97C4719C4C04011E214EC2@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
2011-05-25  0:47     ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-25  6:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25  8:00   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-25  9:05     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 10:50       ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-25 11:28         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 21:08           ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-25 11:30         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-25 16:54   ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-25 18:59     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 19:13       ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-25  7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 16:06   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-05-25 16:58     ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-25 18:24       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 19:04         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-05-25 19:36           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 19:05         ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-25 19:45           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-29 10:21 ` Jan Ceuleers

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