From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Dragoslav Zaric <dragoslav.zaric.kd@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux* Processor Microcode Data File
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:34:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090309153449.GB24213@silver.sucs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090309081109.376f7a7e@infradead.org>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:11:09AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:16:55 +0000
> Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > The kernel doesn't load microcode automatically
>
> it does if you have the right format; the kernel uses
> request_firmware() for this.
> The microcode on the intel website is not ready for this yet, but we're
> working hard to have future drops to be in the new format.
Wow so I was redundant AND wrong in the same email!
What motivated the switch to the generic request_firmware interface? Is
it just less messy/faster than previous methods?
Additionally while I remember, is it worth updating the microcode on all
machines? At present I have an EeePC 900 and it's unclear if it would
benefit from a microcode update (but there's a definite cost to running
the current initscript at boot).
--
Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-09 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 9:43 Linux* Processor Microcode Data File Dragoslav Zaric
2009-03-09 10:00 ` Jike Song
2009-03-09 10:30 ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-09 14:16 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-09 15:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-09 15:34 ` Sitsofe Wheeler [this message]
2009-03-09 15:58 ` Gene Heskett
2009-03-09 16:24 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-03-09 17:03 ` Gene Heskett
2009-03-09 17:57 ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-03-09 16:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-12 10:03 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2009-03-12 14:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-13 8:37 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
[not found] ` <2d05c4580903130142o2e5ebbcfw1e35eb52ea48e4b1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-13 8:44 ` Dragoslav Zaric
2009-03-13 14:55 ` Gene Heskett
2009-03-12 14:53 ` Dragoslav Zaric
2009-03-09 14:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
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