kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

[Randy Dunlap]

Re: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64531


arch/x86/Kconfig line 1053 (+/-), help section in CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL, says:

For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
<http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>

==> 404  Page not found


Is there a good replacement for this information or should we just
delete that help text?


thanks,

-- 
~Randy

Re: kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

[Ingo Molnar]

* Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> Re: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64531
> 
> 
> arch/x86/Kconfig line 1053 (+/-), help section in CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL, says:
> 
> For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
> Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
> <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>
> 
> ==> 404  Page not found
> 
> 
> Is there a good replacement for this information or should we just
> delete that help text?

I'd say let's delete the text. Mind sending a patch?

Thanks,

	Ingo

Re: kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

[Arjan van de Ven]

fwiw this file lives on intel.com for a while now.. unfortunately it's
one of these websites with fancy downloading stuff for which I suspect
the URLs are not long term stable ;-(
but if you type "microcode" into the search box its the first entry...

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> * Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> Re: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64531
>>
>>
>> arch/x86/Kconfig line 1053 (+/-), help section in CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL, says:
>>
>> For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
>> Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
>> <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>
>>
>> ==> 404  Page not found
>>
>>
>> Is there a good replacement for this information or should we just
>> delete that help text?
>
> I'd say let's delete the text. Mind sending a patch?
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Ingo

Re: kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:46:40AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> fwiw this file lives on intel.com for a while now.. unfortunately it's
> one of these websites with fancy downloading stuff for which I suspect
> the URLs are not long term stable ;-(
> but if you type "microcode" into the search box its the first entry...
> 
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Re: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64531
> >>
> >>
> >> arch/x86/Kconfig line 1053 (+/-), help section in CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL, says:
> >>
> >> For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
> >> Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
> >> <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>
> >>
> >> ==> 404  Page not found
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there a good replacement for this information or should we just
> >> delete that help text?
> >
> > I'd say let's delete the text. Mind sending a patch?

Yeah, all the distros are packaging those in some firmware-extra or
whatever package anyway.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

Re: kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Thursday 07 of November 2013, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Re: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64531
> 
> 
> arch/x86/Kconfig line 1053 (+/-), help section in CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL,
> says:
> 
> For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
> Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
> <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>
> 
> ==> 404  Page not found
> 
> 
> Is there a good replacement for this information or should we just
> delete that help text?

For downloading
 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ -> search for "processor microcode data 
file"


-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl

Re: kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 07 of November 2013, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Re: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64531
> > 
> > 
> > arch/x86/Kconfig line 1053 (+/-), help section in CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL,
> > says:
> > 
> > For latest news and information on obtaining all the required
> > Intel ingredients for this driver, check:
> > <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/>
> > 
> > ==> 404  Page not found
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a good replacement for this information or should we just
> > delete that help text?
> 
> For downloading
>  http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ -> search for "processor microcode data 
> file"

How about:

  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?keyword=linux+microcode+data+file

? That, by the looks of it, appears to be a reasonably stable URL.

Thanks,

	Ingo

Re: kernel bugzilla #64531: intel microcode information

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> How about:
>   http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?keyword=linux+microcode+data+file
> 
> ? That, by the looks of it, appears to be a reasonably stable URL.

But it is also mostly useless.  No version information in the results, and
the newest one is NOT the topmost, either.

This one is better, in that it at least has the required information, but
your browser needs to have a proper built-in RSS renderer:
http://feeds.downloadcenter.intel.com/rss/?p=483&lang=eng

You might want to use the URL for a newer processor family, though.
E.g. for the 5000-sequence Xeons:
http://feeds.downloadcenter.intel.com/rss/?p=2371&lang=eng

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh