From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752570AbaIAUSB (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:18:01 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:46733 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752003AbaIAUR7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:17:59 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Of2Wa+kSZfzaMzMRBy5hNnOmNaR1UdbQU6LsYnUTYDIQ 1409602678 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 17:17:52 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Conrad Kostecki Cc: "Linux (Kernel) Mailingliste (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org)" Subject: Re: Early microcode not being loaded Message-ID: <20140901201752.GB18675@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20140718212427.GB11098@pd.tnic> <4c348de3b92a49c58bf17777873410dd@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <06765c8a9ea84f8a81d595e05dcfe10e@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <06765c8a9ea84f8a81d595e05dcfe10e@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint1: 4096R/39CB4807 C467 A717 507B BAFE D3C1 6092 0BD9 E811 39CB 4807 X-GPG-Fingerprint2: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Conrad Kostecki wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1857432 Jul 18 17:01 kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin That file is way too big. In fact, it is exactly the size of the newest ".dat" file from Intel. The kernel doesn't grok that text format, the microcode updates have to be converted to binary format, first. I suggest you use "iucode_tool -S --write-earlyfw=ucode.cpio" to generate your ucode.cpio. You can find iucode-tool at: https://gitorious.org/iucode-tool/pages/Home -- "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