[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] remove duplicated microcode updates for some Intel processors

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 06:50:16 CET 2007


On Dec 29, 2007 9:00 PM,  <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
> Quoting Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Acked-by: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>
> >
> > how long has it been since we've updated the microcode updates?
> >
> No idea, but remember the email below from 12/12/07? Looks like an
> update is in order, but I wouldn't know where to start.
>
> Thanks - Joe
>
> > Quoting Martin.Karlsson at emerson.com:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Yesterday I wrote some code for the Syslinux boot loader that is meant
> >> to boot different images based on which revision of the CPU microcode
> >> that is currently loaded in the CPU (yes, this is a bit strange but we
> >> have a very good reason for it). I then compared my implementation with
> >> a few others an ran across yours, in
> >> http://www.openbios.org/viewvc/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/cpu/intel/microcode
> >> /microcode.c?view=markup
> >>
> >> Question to you guys: why is the first wrmsr instruction there? From my
> >> understanding, by not properly initialising ECX, EAX and EDX this will
> >> overwrite whatever is in the MSR pointed to by ECX?!
> >>
> >> BTW I tried out your code on our target hardware (Intel Celeron M, 600
> >> MHz) and with that first wrmsr line in place it hangs and without it, it
> >> runs just fine.
> >>
> >> Just wanted to let you know.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Martin Karlsson
>
>
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I submitted the patch to remove this extraneous wrmsr a while back. I
can't recall if it was acked and committed, but I thought it was.

I have two other patches in limbo:
1. fix to buildtarget to enable switches like -fno-stack-protector
2. fix to lib/lar.c to enable parameter passing to lar executables.

thanks

ron




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