linux-kernel - Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware...

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Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:35:47 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware...

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:17:16 BST, Tigran Aivazian said:
> Hi Valdis,
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> 
> > I built the -rc8-mmotd kernel, and built it with 'CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
=n'.
> > Lo and behold, the microcode.ko was now doing a request_firmware for
> > 'intel-ucode/06-0f-06' (which makes sense, the Core2 Duo in this laptop is
> > family 6, model 15, stepping 6).  However, what I had in /lib/firmware was
> > the Intel-distributed 'microcode.dat' with updates for all the CPUs (which
> > used to work in times past).
> >
> > What's the magic incantation to take the microcode.dat and create something
> > that the firmware driver is willing to use, or is this all borked up and
> > I need to do a major rethink or fix my config?
> 
> that's because it expects the Intel-supplied microcode data and you are 
> using the old style microcode.dat data.

I fed it the stuff I downloaded today from this URL:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2643&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go!

which gets me a microcode-20080401.dat that does the same thing.  Is there
some *other* Intel-supplied microcode data I should be getting instead?

(If I should be looking elsewhere, can somebody fix http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/
to point somewhere other than http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx so
people go to the right place?)
> 
> Kind regards
> Tigran
> 
> >
> > Another minor annoyance - the tg3 driver, when builtin to the kernel, would
n't
> > load the microcode in this config. It complained it couldn't get 'tigon/tg3
_tos.bin',
> > but that's almost certainly an issue with Fedora's 'nash' firmware support 
and/or
> > my understanding of it - I got *that* part working by dropping the file int
o
> > /lib/firmware/tigon and building the driver as a module. Fortunately, I don
't
> > need the tg3 driver to boot far enough to get a full udev running.
> >
> >
> 


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