On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:30:18 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I can't offer much help other than the assurance that it works on > 64-bit. I've been using it to keep my CPU's microcode updated for quite > a while. It's a Core 2 Duo though, not Quad, running Gentoo ~amd64. > > Could you possibly check your kernel log? Here is the log from my machine after loading the microcode module: Dec 11 23:24:25 (none) kernel: microcode: CPU0 sig=0x6fb, pf=0x10, revision=0xb6 Dec 11 23:24:25 (none) kernel: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0b Dec 11 23:25:25 (none) kernel: microcode: CPU1 sig=0x6fb, pf=0x10, revision=0xb6 Dec 11 23:25:25 (none) kernel: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0b Dec 11 23:26:25 (none) kernel: microcode: CPU2 sig=0x6fb, pf=0x10, revision=0xb6 Dec 11 23:26:25 (none) kernel: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0b Dec 11 23:27:25 (none) kernel: microcode: CPU3 sig=0x6fb, pf=0x10, revision=0xb6 Dec 11 23:27:25 (none) kernel: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0b Dec 11 23:28:25 (none) kernel: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <[email protected]>, Peter Oruba The loading process occurs over four minutes as each cpu seems to make some sort of request for intel microcode. There seems to be a request and then a long wait. I don't fully understand what is happening but the firmware drivers seem to play some role. Maybe my kernel is not configured correctly for handling firmware. Frank Peters
