Re: [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.10.2014 um 16:52 schrieb Christian Hesse: Successfully tested with grub (1:2.02.beta2-4). You need something like this in grub.cfg: echo'Loading Intel ucode update and initial ramdisk ...' initrd /intel-ucode.img /initramfs-linux.img I edited grub.cfg manually,

Re: [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-18 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:38:27 +0200 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 12.10.2014 um 16:52 schrieb Christian Hesse: Successfully tested with grub (1:2.02.beta2-4). You need something like this in grub.cfg: echo'Loading Intel ucode update and initial ramdisk ...'

Re: [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-13 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 12/10/14 18:13, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On 12/10/14 15:28, Thomas Bächler wrote: For AMD, a similar mechanism is available, but since I don't own an AMD CPU, I cannot implement this. This causes problems, since the microcode update is no longer triggered automatically on boot (since

[arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Intel released a new microcode update that disables an instruction on Haswell CPUs. However, Linux doesn't handle this very well and in combination with our glibc version, this essentially crashes your system. The solution is to use the new early microcode update mechanism that was introduced

Re: [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-12 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 12/10/14 15:28, Thomas Bächler wrote: For AMD, a similar mechanism is available, but since I don't own an AMD CPU, I cannot implement this. This causes problems, since the microcode update is no longer triggered automatically on boot (since microcode is no longer a module). If you want to

Re: [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.10.2014 um 16:52 schrieb Christian Hesse: Successfully tested with grub (1:2.02.beta2-4). You need something like this in grub.cfg: echo'Loading Intel ucode update and initial ramdisk ...' initrd /intel-ucode.img /initramfs-linux.img I edited grub.cfg manually,