Hi Thomas, Le Thursday 06 June 2013 à 15:14 +0200, Thomas Renninger a écrit :
Oh, I thought user-space had to do something for the CPU microcode to actually get updated. Or has it changed and just loading the module triggers the update now? Yep, that changed. Intel per CPU family-model-stepping split up files are here: /lib/firmware/intel-ucode and AMD here: /lib/firmware/amd-ucode and this is fetched via firmware loader instead of a tiny binary pushing
On Thursday, June 06, 2013 08:55:56 AM Jean Delvare wrote: things through /dev/cpu/microcode. The latter is deprecated for some time: CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE=y
Thanks for the clarification. Shouldn't we just disable CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE now?
This even changed from SLES 11 SP2 -> SP3. Factory microcode_ctl package still needs some cleanup.
Like getting rid of /sbin/microcode_ctl?
Anyway, keeping this one as a module is a good idea.
Yes, this is the plan. If one wants to update the microcode without rebooting the machine, he/she would need to unload and then reload the microcode module? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org