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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AMD microcode loading broken on 32 bit
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:25:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140121182554.GE9004@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DEB4A9.4070707@oracle.com>

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:55:53PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>         cat $(AMD_UCODE_PATH)/* >
> ucode_initrd/kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin
>         (cd ucode_initrd;find . | cpio -o -H newc >
> ../$(DISTDIR)/common/ucode_initrd.cpio)
>         ...
>         cat $(DISTDIR)/common/ucode_initrd.cpio \
>             $(DISTDIR)/common/_initramfs.cpio.gz > \
>             $(DISTDIR)/common/initramfs.cpio.gz
> 
> and as I just discovered, with a little twist: apparently
> AMD_UCODE_PATH points to Intel microcode.

LOL!

@hpa: in case you were wondering whether Intel ucode works on AMD - it
doesn't! :-)

> So we clearly screwed up on our end but I'd think that we shouldn't
> crash when this happens.

Yes, we shouldn't. I'll try to reproduce it here.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <52DE94A9.9060505@oracle.com>
2014-01-21 16:14 ` AMD microcode loading broken on 32 bit Borislav Petkov
2014-01-21 17:55   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-21 18:25     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-01-23 18:08       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-23 18:54         ` Gene Heskett
2014-01-23 19:09           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-23 19:36             ` Gene Heskett
2014-01-23 19:29         ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-23 19:41           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 16:24             ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 20:43               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 20:52                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 21:05                   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 21:30                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 21:37                       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 23:10                         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 23:22                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-30 15:13                             ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-30 19:41                               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-30 19:54                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 17:55                                   ` [PATCH -v2] x86, microcode, AMD: Sanity-check initrd image Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 19:13                                     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-02-03 19:30                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 19:37                                         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-02-03 19:52                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 20:28                                             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-02-03 20:33                                               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 20:41                                                 ` [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Unify valid container checks Borislav Petkov
2014-02-06 19:39                                                   ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov

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