From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756215Ab2DQQDR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:03:17 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:43374 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754297Ab2DQQDP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:03:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201204171153.04489.gene.heskett@gmail.com> References: <20120411163849.GE4794@alberich.amd.com> <4F8D7A0A.4080404@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120417145002.GA11221@aftab> <201204171153.04489.gene.heskett@gmail.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:54 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded for To: Gene Heskett Cc: Borislav Petkov , "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andreas Herrmann , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2012/4/17 Gene Heskett : > I do not think the above has anything to do with the current version > shipping in some distro's, which is trying to find the intel code on > kernels >2.6.39 when running on AMD stuff, so that script in /etc/init.d > needs attention too.  I have nuked about half of that script in my local > copy so that it does install AMD code on AMD processors.  The errors I was > seeing were only the lack of its ability to find the Intel code and does > not generate any output resembling the above. Just a note: the intel microcode is loaded by a kernel-initiated firmware request these days. There is no (broken) init script on recent systems, to (rather mindlessly) fiddle around in userspace with kernel internals. Kay