Re: testing early microcode loading

2018-09-11 Thread Pete Wright
On 9/10/18 8:55 PM, Pete Wright wrote: > On 9/10/18 5:41 PM, Mark Johnston wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:48:56PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: >>> On 9/10/18 11:26 AM, Mark Johnston wrote: Hi, Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in the kernel

Re: testing early microcode loading

2018-09-11 Thread Mark Johnston
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:20:56AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > On 9/10/18 8:26 PM, Mark Johnston wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in > > the kernel in r337715, and in the sysutils/devcpu-data port as of 1.20. > > Thanks for your

Re: testing early microcode loading

2018-09-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 9/10/18 8:26 PM, Mark Johnston wrote: Hi, Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in the kernel in r337715, and in the sysutils/devcpu-data port as of 1.20. Thanks for your work. Altough I cannot test it yet, I appreciate it. Just one question: what about AMD?

Re: testing early microcode loading

2018-09-10 Thread Pete Wright
On 9/10/18 5:41 PM, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:48:56PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: >> >> On 9/10/18 11:26 AM, Mark Johnston wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in >>> the kernel in r337715, and in the sysutils/devcpu-data

Re: testing early microcode loading

2018-09-10 Thread Mark Johnston
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:48:56PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: > > > On 9/10/18 11:26 AM, Mark Johnston wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in > > the kernel in r337715, and in the sysutils/devcpu-data port as of 1.20. > > I'd like to solicit

Re: testing early microcode loading

2018-09-10 Thread Pete Wright
On 9/10/18 11:26 AM, Mark Johnston wrote: Hi, Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in the kernel in r337715, and in the sysutils/devcpu-data port as of 1.20. I'd like to solicit some testing of the feature ahead of 12.0. The port has been modified to install

testing early microcode loading

2018-09-10 Thread Mark Johnston
Hi, Support for boot-time loading of Intel microcode updates has landed in the kernel in r337715, and in the sysutils/devcpu-data port as of 1.20. I'd like to solicit some testing of the feature ahead of 12.0. The port has been modified to install /boot/firmware/intel-ucode.bin. This file