From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753582AbYISMAU (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751988AbYISMAH (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:07 -0400 Received: from outbound-va3.frontbridge.com ([216.32.180.16]:27700 "EHLO VA3EHSOBE006.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750876AbYISMAG (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:06 -0400 X-BigFish: VPS-31(zz1432R98dR4015M1805M936fQ873fnzz10d3izzz32i6bh61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-FB-SS: 5, X-WSS-ID: 0K7FYNS-01-8QI-01 Message-ID: <48D3942B.1050901@amd.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:59:39 +0200 From: Peter Oruba Organization: AMD (OSRC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080720) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven , cate@debian.org CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Tigran Aivazian , LKML , Dmitry Adamushko Subject: Re: [patch 05/11] [PATCH 05/11] x86: Moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c. References: <20080728164411.490752571@amd.com> <20080728164448.492961653@amd.com> <20080907120823.59f8fa47@infradead.org> <48CA586C.2010104@amd.com> <20080912063517.783b7f85@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080912063517.783b7f85@infradead.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Sep 2008 11:59:39.0710 (UTC) FILETIME=[31CE1DE0:01C91A4F] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Some additonal words regarding the current user space issues: IMHO the most convenient way to update microcode is through the firmware loading interface instead of microcode_ctl. This reduces user-space responsibilities to loading the correct module at boot time and to place the microcode patch file at the right location via package installation. The problems mentioned in this thread would then probably disappear as well. What do you guys think? Thanks, Peter Arjan van de Ven schrieb: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:54:20 +0200 > Peter Oruba wrote: > >> Arjan, >> >> could you please provide some more information about that issue? > > well.. the fedora boot script just plain fails. > I suspect it manually loads microcode.ko or something if CPUID says > intel; and this now stops working... > > -- | AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG Operating | Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany System | Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896 Research | General Partner authorized to represent: Center | AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) | General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy