Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 4:16 PM Wols Lists wrote: > > On 13/07/19 20:23, Mick wrote: > > Thanks Corbin, I wonder if despite articles about microcode patch releases > > to > > deal with spectre and what not, there are just no patches made available for > > my agin

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-18 Thread Mick
Hartman > >> > > >> > wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht > > > > wrote: > >> >>> OK, I got it to load by hand: > >> >>> > >> >>> 1) emerge microcode-ctl > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-12 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 01/12/2018 02:06 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: It shouldn't be. I'm not sure if Ryzen has anything equivalent to the Intel Management Engine. It does, it is called AMD PSP. Like ME it is closed source and it can't be disabled - no matter what people might claim.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-11 Thread Mick
ndor. Yes, but I would be surprised if new 'fixed' CPUs land anytime before 2019 ... if not 2020. I'd rather not be running an old Intel i7 which has not had its microcode patched all the way until then - if the complimentary microcode patch is *also* improving security besides

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-18 Thread Mick
it to load by hand: > >>> > >>> 1) emerge microcode-ctl > >>> > >>> which also emerges microcode-data. Unfortunately microcode-data looks > >>> to be out of date. > >> > >> The ebuild for newer versions (including th

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
gt;> IV Formula to activate microcodes push in the CPU by the module > >> "microcode" ? (AMD Phenom X6 1090T) > > > > Not sure about BIOS, but the Linux Kernel you are running will certainly > > need support enabled too. > > > >> 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-13 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 01/13/2018 12:50 PM, Mick wrote: Thank you Taiidan for taking time to respond. Always man! On Friday, 12 January 2018 17:21:19 GMT you wrote: AMD says they are releasing microcode updates for their previous generation CPU's (Opteron, FX, etc) next week. So much better than intel thr

[gentoo-user] Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

2018-01-03 Thread P Levine
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here before but there apparently is a bug affecting all Intel CPUs manufactured in the last 10 years or so, in which protected kernel memory is leaked to userspace. It can't be patched in microcode and will lead to some serious overhead to patch

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-12 Thread Adam Carter
> > If somebody actually sees anything official from AMD clearly giving a > checklist for Spectre remediation I'm all ears. To its credit, Intel > at least published one of those (even if it amounts to "pound sand" > for older CPUs). > AMD have revised their guid

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-17 Thread meino . cramer
BRM [11-01-17 19:16]: > - Original Message > > > I have two questions: > > > > 1) Do I have to enable microcode updates in the BIOS of my Crosshair > > IV Formula to activate microcodes push in the CPU by the module > > "microcod

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM, BRM wrote: > - Original Message > >> I have two questions: >> >>  1) Do I have to enable microcode  updates in the BIOS of my Crosshair >>     IV Formula to activate  microcodes push in the CPU by the module >>    

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-02 Thread Peter Böhm
If your system is working with your old kernel I dont think it could be a hardware problem. If your kernel config is the same then I dont think it is a problem with the kernel. My questions would be: Which CPU do you use ? Have you emerged a new microcode for CPU ? Example: Intel has disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-17 Thread Adam Carter
> gentoo-sources-4.19.57. > Are you running a later kernel? > > According to this article a microcode update seems to be necessary, but > I'm > not sure if this statement only applies to Intel CPUs: > > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301#indirect-branch-predi

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
> will not be bringing out updated microcode to address the GPZ > vulnerabilities for any of their older CPUs. This has given me one more > reason to never buy Intel again. Oh? What are your other reasons? :? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?

2018-01-10 Thread Mick
e we to do with our old PCs, which will no longer receive Intel's microcode blessing? Are we to throw them away in a landfill and of course take our custom elsewhere, or will the kernel patches suffice for both bugs and all variants? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-17 Thread Corbin
there at all. I'm on gentoo-sources-4.19.57. > Are you running a later kernel? > > According to this article a microcode update seems to be necessary, but I'm > not sure if this statement only applies to Intel CPUs: > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301#indirec

[gentoo-user] Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-20 Thread James
the system above (HD 4350). I followed the gentoo guides on this migration from ATI to Radeon driver, but could have muck things up. BZflag runs so slow it get's about every frame. glxgears has a score of 80 with the radeon driver and a kms kernel. When booting (drm RV710) microcode takes ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop - AMD or Intel?

2020-03-09 Thread Michael
On Monday, 9 March 2020 18:08:54 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-03-09, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Would that be the consensus of the group here? > > After decades of buying AMD, over the past 5 years or so all my > machines gradually shifted to Intel. > > So you can p

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-09 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/09/2018 01:56 AM, Mick wrote: > On Monday, 8 January 2018 17:47:03 GMT Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 01/07/2018 02:46 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >>> I have several sandy/ivybridge CPU's and I was wondering if anyone >>> knows as to if intel is releasing microc

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE error

2015-03-28 Thread Mick
gt;>>> > >>>> Sebas > >>> > >>> bios update/microcode update. A google search suggests that you have > >>> run > >>> into an errata. > >> > >> Oh OK, thank you. Must have miss that in the search. So you are s

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:19:51AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > [thimk][root][~] lspci -k | grep -i -B 1 5100 > Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus > 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] > Network Connection > Subsystem: Intel C

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-17 Thread Mick
t; > Corbin Hmm ... My last line looks the same like Rich's, but different to yours: # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling I don't have IBPB mentioned in there at all. I'm on gentoo-sources-4.19.57.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: old kernels are installed during the upgrade

2018-01-04 Thread Rich Freeman
gt; This is a problem that's associated with "speculative execution". I > wonder how much of a performance hit it would be to turn off speculative > execution. That would probably require at least a microcode/firmware > update, if not a new cpu. Turning it off entirely wou

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE error

2015-03-29 Thread Sebas Pedersen
>>>> >>>> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b2070f0f >>>> TSC f5acc9180 >>>> PROCESSOR 2:20fc2 TIME 1427486735 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 0 >>>> >>>> the number for TSC may vary, but the b2070f0f it&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Card On Laptop - Help Setting Up

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/30/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The card is: Intel PRO/Wireless (the kind they put in the IBM X40 type 2386-1CU - I don't know anything other than that part of the card's name - I'm sorry.) Intel cards are well supported. The 3945 requires out-of-tree

[gentoo-user] CTRL-C and pre-merge checks

2021-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've just started an emerge -e world to run overnight, and I realised I'd forgotten to mount /boot (for intel-microcode), so I hit CTRL-C to abort. It took several dozen attempts, because pre-merge checks were in progress. It seems that this operation doesn't pass t

Re: [gentoo-user] Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

2018-01-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 2:15 PM, P Levine wrote: > I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here before but there apparently is a > bug affecting all Intel CPUs manufactured in the last 10 years or so, in > which protected kernel memory is leaked to userspace. It can't be pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?

2018-01-10 Thread Wolfgang Mueller
> It looks as though my CPU hasn't been fixed yet. Is that right? It seems that patches are being pushed out as they are being received, so back when that one was released, no other updates were available. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/643430#c10 We should get the full range of updates in the next

[gentoo-user] New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-14 Thread Adam Carter
Here we go again; https://mdsattacks.com/ I notice a microcode update for skylake came through yesterday after being unchanged since the late June 2018, so i'm guessing this is patched for this issue. Just waiting for the gentoo sources ebuild to be bumped to 5.1.2 to try it out. Sounds lik

[gentoo-user] iwl5000 firmware fails to load

2010-09-24 Thread James
Folks, I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode. After a fresh install Gentoo install wireless works with no issues. Upon installing a set that includes xorg, Firefox, hal, VirtualBox, etc. the wireless ceases to work. Check out a snippet from my dmesg: ~ % dmesg

[gentoo-user] Re: iwl5000 firmware fails to load

2010-09-25 Thread James
Any thoughts / ideas would be greatly appreciated. :o) I'm about to rip a handful of hair out of my head. :) -james On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:46 AM, James wrote: > Folks, > > I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode. > > After a fresh in

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE error

2015-03-29 Thread Mick
;> > >> >>>> Any suggestion for identifying the problem or how to procede? > >> >>>> > >> >>>> Many thanks in advance! > >> >>>> > >> >>>> Sebas > >> >>> > >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE error

2015-03-29 Thread Sebas Pedersen
>>>> Sometimes I turn on the computer and at some point while booting >> >>>> the kernel (after the grub menu) just freezes and puts this: >> >>>> >> >>>> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b2070f0f >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?

2018-01-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:47:25 GMT Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > > It looks as though my CPU hasn't been fixed yet. Is that right? > > It seems that patches are being pushed out as they are being received, > so back when that one was released, no other updates were available. > > See https://

[gentoo-user] spec_store_bypass mitigation

2018-06-07 Thread zless
Hello, I just finished installing kernel 4.14.48 on two Intel laptops and I have different results for /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass On one of them it looks nice: "Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp" but on the other it

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
ssor   : 0 vendor_id   : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 6 model   : 23 model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E7500  @ 2.93GHz stepping    : 10 microcode   : 0xa07 cpu MHz : 1656.069 cache size  : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings    : 2 core id   

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-27 Thread Mick
le to advise, but this page explains what you need to do: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel_microcode However, you may find it makes no difference. Intel have announced they will not be bringing out updated microcode to address the GPZ vulnerabilities for any of their older CPUs. This has given

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-06 Thread Wols Lists
cal theft of your device. Somebody who > steals your laptop with passwordless encryption might be able to break > the encryption on your device. It's worse that that, he's dead, Jim! The summary on LWN is an easy read. Somebody who steals your Intel laptop WILL be able to break t

[gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

2022-11-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, My new laptop shows this from /proc/cpuinfo: --->8 processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 154 model name : 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H stepping: 3 microcode : 0x421 --->8 I've been hunting aro

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-28 Thread Mick
e > > > > However, you may find it makes no difference. Intel have announced they > > will not be bringing out updated microcode to address the GPZ > > vulnerabilities for any of their older CPUs. This has given me one more > > reason to never buy Intel again. >

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU frequency governors and temperatures

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Friday, 14 June 2024 20:53:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:54:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > > I would think 46-48°C is refreshingly cool, but it very much depends > > on the CPU chip, the MoBo and its BIOS/microcode settings. > > I looked up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-27 Thread Klaus Ethgen
c ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd Keywords:7.3.0-r2:7.3.0: License: GPL-3+ LGPL-3+ || ( GPL-3+ libgcc libstdc++ gcc-runtime-library-exception-3.1 ) FDL-1.3+ So which version is stable enough to use? 7.3.0, I use on a different (non-Gentoo) system. But why -r1 and -r2?

[gentoo-user] Which CPU type to select?

2013-02-08 Thread Walter Dnes
-64 Here's the listing for one of the cores from /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz stepping: 5 microcode : 0x2 cpu MHz : 2667

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.14 has meltdown / spectre info in /sys

2018-01-21 Thread Corbin Bird
h file or > directory /proc/cpuinfo has not changed. > Darkstar ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor    : 0 > vendor_id    : AuthenticAMD > cpu family    : 21 > model        : 2 > model name    : AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor > stepping    : 0 > microcode    : 0x600084f >

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 03:12:29AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote > Can you confirm that the correct firmware package is being loaded ? > `lspci -k | grep -i -B 1 5100` [thimk][root][~] lspci -k | grep -i -B 1 5100 Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corpo

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 05/04/18 17:54, Rich Freeman wrote: >> I >> haven't checked recently but the last time I looked at it even my >> current Ryzen CPU doesn't have a microcode fix out yet for lfence. > > Is lfence a meltdown

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED?] Upgrade old laptop kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13; no console

2024-02-04 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:16:42 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 10:18:41AM +, Michael wrote > > Also, unless you use an initrd don't forget any firmware blobs which > > may be be needed by your graphics card and while you're at it add > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-07-31 Thread Walter Dnes
s compatability issues. I also prefer to be able to scp the VM disk images to the backup machine, rather than having to do a separate install on each machine. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x

2020-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
). > > If it is running the initrd then you probably can get it to launch a > shell and then you can poke around and see what it is doing. That's not an initrd with a shell though, it's just the intel microcode update. You would need an additional dracut (or similar)

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/04/18 17:54, Rich Freeman wrote: > I > haven't checked recently but the last time I looked at it even my > current Ryzen CPU doesn't have a microcode fix out yet for lfence. Is lfence a meltdown problem? Because afaik Ryzen doesn't need a fix for meltdown, it&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources : stable versions

2018-06-27 Thread Mick
; (as stable as anything can be on those things) which needs latest. > > BillK I had to revert to gentoo-sources-4.9.95 because on a Dell-XPS all kernels on the 4.14, 4.15, 4.16 series broke bluetooth and suspend to RAM. Spectre fixes are limited on this kernel version and the latest Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Adam Carter
isplay card is an AMD/ATI Tonga Radeon R9 380X and I load the latest > microcode during kernel compilation. I have VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeonsi" > in > make.conf. Fine with earlier kernel versions but not with 4.9.0. > Hi Peter - same issue here with my Tonga card. I get nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 09:53:36PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > The last part of getting my Lenovo T400 fully functional is the wifi. > "lspci" shows "03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless > 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection". I tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Which CPU type to select?

2013-02-08 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm installing Gentoo on a brand new toy I just got myself. Here are > the choices from "make menuconfig". Is "Core 2/newer Xeon" correct? > > ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 > ( ) Intel P4 / older

Re: [gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

2022-11-16 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:59:59 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > My new laptop shows this from /proc/cpuinfo: > > --->8 > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 154 > model name : 12t

Re: [gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

2022-11-15 Thread William Kenworthy
cpu family : 6 model : 154 model name : 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H stepping: 3 microcode : 0x421 --->8 I've been hunting around to find which modules I need to load from sys-kernel/ linux-firmware, and it isn't at all clear. Some sources say th

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-09 Thread Rich Freeman
tre. I just wasn't something that was on anybody's radar. New CPUs are likely to be resistant to these types of attacks regardless of vendor. Sure, if I was about to place an order for 1000 CPUs tomorrow I'd probably pick AMD over Intel to avoid the PTI overhead, but that is abo

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED?] Upgrade old laptop kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13; no console

2024-02-03 Thread Walter Dnes
27;t forget any firmware blobs which > may be be needed by your graphics card and while you're at it add > your CPU microcode there too. The graphics is a bog standard Intel i915 integrated chip that's been running on the laptop for years without blobs. -- Roses are red Roses are blue Depending on their velocity Relative to you

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Jacques Montier
office-3.5.0.1 >merge time: 58 minutes and 38 seconds. > > Fri Feb 17 10:21:57 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.3 >merge time: 50 minutes and 8 seconds. Here it is... processor: 7 vendor_id: GenuineIntel cpu family: 6 model: 26

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x [FIXED]

2020-06-09 Thread Andrew Udvare
automatically place the file into In both cases, you have to remember to update the EFI image/rebuild and reinstall the kernel whenever you update intel-microcode. The benefit to this is you don't have to maintain entries files, and you keep configuration generally in one place: the kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
and compiling left me with > > a > > blank display and no booting activity. > > > > The display card is an AMD/ATI Tonga Radeon R9 380X and I load the > > latest > > microcode during kernel compilation. I have VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu > > radeonsi" >

Re: [gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

2022-11-15 Thread Lee
t; > On 16/11/22 00:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > My new laptop shows this from /proc/cpuinfo: > > > > --->8 > > processor : 0 > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 6 > > model

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
e > graphics card and the Intel CPU, and I've been declaring the file names in > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR. As the display works > fine, and so does opencl on the GPU since I emerged dev-libs/amdgpu-pro- > opencl, I assume that the firmware is being loaded.

Re: [gentoo-user] cflags for atom

2013-10-21 Thread Joseph
inux-gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j3" processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 28 model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N550 @ 1.50GHz stepping: 10 microcode : 0x107 cpu MHz : 1500.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop

2010-12-11 Thread Valmor de Almeida
ould try changing channels (if there is a clash with other local APs) > but > it's most likely that the dropouts you notice are due to the wireless driver. > > Waiting for developers to catch up or using later drivers/firmware usually > fixes this problem. Here is some i

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-09 Thread Mick
gt; cpu family : 6 > > model : 30 > > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz > > stepping: 5 > > microcode : 0x4 > > cpu MHz : 933.000 > > cache size : 6144 KB > > physical id : 0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-06 Thread aisha
your device. It's worse that that, he's dead, Jim! The summary on LWN is an easy read. Somebody who steals your Intel laptop WILL be able to break the encryption on your device. tl;dr summary - the microcode that *boots* the cpu has been compromised. So even while it is setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > This is my CPU, a first generation i7: > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor       : 0 > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel > cpu family      : 6 > model           : 30 > model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU      

[gentoo-user] Card is Radeon R200, but Mesa builds Gallium R300; HELP!

2011-12-13 Thread Walter Dnes
ere, the bootup will delay for a minute, time out, and then continue. If the R200 blob is in /lib/firmware/radeon, it'll load, regardles of what i put in the kernel setup; e.g. [d530][root][~] dmesg | grep R200 [0.277947] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode notwitstanding that the kernel is set

Re: [gentoo-user] CTRL-C and pre-merge checks

2021-04-06 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 6 April 2021 23:08:17 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've just started an emerge -e world to run overnight, and I realised I'd > forgotten to mount /boot (for intel-microcode), so I hit CTRL-C to abort. It > took several dozen attempts, because

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Mol
et (which is probably the most > annoying thing about the Intel world, compared to AMD). > Be very careful. This laptop's processor does not have VT-x...and that bit me. $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Adam Carter
me other way or is risky? > I accept Mitigation as good enough. The kernel devs seem to choose a good balance between secure and fast. Anything that says 'vulnerable' is a problem, but you may have to live with it until a new microcode or kernel update arrives. Or if the CPU vendor is

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
gt; > The summary on LWN is an easy read. Somebody who steals your Intel > laptop WILL be able to break the encryption on your device. > > tl;dr summary - the microcode that *boots* the cpu has been compromised. > So even while it is setting up tpm and all that malarkey, malware

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: latest longterm kernel.org patches are unsigned

2018-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
t; >> This breaks my lovingly duct-taped kernel update infrastructure ... >> > >Ian, > >Not sure this is related to your problem but it's an interesting read >about (intel) microcodes and current blocks being enforced by Gentoo, >clandestinely? > > >h

[gentoo-user] cflags for atom

2013-10-21 Thread Silvio Siefke
inter -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j3" processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 28 model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N550 @ 1.50GHz stepping: 10 microcode

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon RV730 blobs changed

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:55:40 GMT Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 18:31:03 GMT Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Mick wrote: > > > [1.072525] [drm] Loading RV730 Microcode > > > [1.072679] radeon :02:00.0: Dire

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:59:37 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:19:51AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > [thimk][root][~] lspci -k | grep -i -B 1 5100 > > > > Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus > > > > 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] cflags for atom

2013-10-21 Thread thegeezer
i use > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=atom -mtune=atom -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer > -pipe" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > MAKEOPTS="-j3" > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Server fails to boot after update to 4.19.27-r1

2019-03-17 Thread Dan Johansson
n from Hasan to run "make synconfig" but that did not change any option in .config. I'll try to rebuild kernel/init/busybox/intel-microcode again next weekend. Are you booting with the updated initramfs? Or perhaps still with the initramfs belonging to an older kernel? Does the serve

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
..] > > > What firmware are you trying to install? This box needs firmware for the > > graphics card and the Intel CPU, and I've been declaring the file names > > in CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR. As the display > > works fine, and so does o

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop

2010-12-11 Thread Valmor de Almeida
evelopers to catch up or using later drivers/firmware usually >> fixes this problem. > > Here is some info. > > -> dmesg | grep -i iwl > [ 12.442620] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, > in-tree:d > [ 12.442622] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2

[gentoo-user] xbmc font rendering issue after upgrade mesa or/and xorg ati driver

2011-03-31 Thread Füves Zoltán
368 M:834494464 ERROR: DS: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message and of course Xorg log file has no error system : radeon 9200 se ( [drm] Loading R200 Microcode) [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.24 USE="

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon RV730 blobs changed

2017-12-23 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:55:40 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 18:31:03 GMT Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Mick > wrote: > > > > [ 1.0725

Re: [gentoo-user] Now it's AMD's turn ...

2020-03-08 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:04:02 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:23 AM Rudi wrote: > > While I usually side with AMD for their contributions to the Open > > Sourced community, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that even > > though they'r

Re: [gentoo-user] cflags for atom

2013-10-21 Thread Alecks Gates
ment i use > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=atom -mtune=atom -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer > -pipe" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > MAKEOPTS="-j3" > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel >

[gentoo-user] broadwell for kaby lake?

2017-04-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have a new computer, assembled piece by piece, and the cpu is supposed to be an intel i5-7600 LGA1151. The original box says "7th generation". However: $ gcc -### -E - -march=native 2>&1 | sed -r '/cc1/!d;s/(")|(^.* - )//g' -march=broadwell -mmmx -mno-3dnow

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Server fails to boot after update to 4.19.27-r1

2019-03-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
you copy the text? Or did you >manage to >>>> grab the output somehow? >>>> >>>> Also, which init system and initrd are you using? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Joost >>> >>> The text was copied from a screenshot (IPM

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Walter Dnes
us > firmware-loading errors in dmesg ? What is ASPM and what is error -2? BTW, on my first attempt, when I accidentally tried a non-existant firmware path, the kernel compile died early on. Here is what I get in dmesg with ucode 8.83.5.1-1 [0.728996] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop - AMD or Intel?

2020-03-11 Thread james
r 5 years or so, with continuous improvements on stability and performance. If the laptop's MoBo firmware is flash-able with coreboot you're in (partial) luck. You still need microcode binary blobs and for these you are at the mercy of the CPU manufacturers. With the Intel debacle over

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
7;t get the available oomph out of your cpu. It's not so much a matter of raw speed as ability to do complex calculations in the chipset microcode, rather than painfully emulating it in software. One of the features of Gentoo is customizing your build to get the most out of your cpu. Use it... w

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Justin
TRR (base = 0xe800, size = 0x0200, type = 1) Invalid > argument (22) > > and the following > > e-nibbles wwong # dmesg | tail -n 5 > pci :01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode > [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map > [drm] Loadin

Re: [gentoo-user] CTRL-C and pre-merge checks

2021-04-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 7 April 2021 07:53:09 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 April 2021 23:08:17 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've just started an emerge -e world to run overnight, and I realised I'd > > forgotten to mount /boot (for intel

[gentoo-user] Re: xbmc font rendering issue after upgrade mesa or/and xorg ati driver

2011-04-01 Thread Füves Zoltán
ndow 10133 > has been asked to focus, but it can't > 10:52:57 T:3039086368 M:834494464   ERROR:  DS: Failed to connect to > the D-Bus session daemon: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally > without any error message > > and of course Xorg log file has  no error > > syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Rich Freeman
In these cases the kernel devs have started to fix a vulnerability, but in their judgment the problem isn't fully resolved. This might happen when a vulnerability is first discovered, or if a microcode update isn't available and there isn't a workaround yet. In the latter case a more exp

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Server fails to boot after update to 4.19.27-r1

2019-03-18 Thread Dan Johansson
t) and not the kernel. I also have a bunch of other servers which all updated fine to 4.19.?? I tried the suggestion from Hasan to run "make synconfig" but that did not change any option in .config. I'll try to rebuild kernel/init/busybox/intel-microcode again next wee

Re: [gentoo-user] broadwell for kaby lake?

2017-04-22 Thread Poison BL.
ctor-strong > > > ?! > > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 158 > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600 CPU @ 3.50GHz > stepping: 9 > microcode : 0x42 > cpu

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Willie Wong
0.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found e-nibbles wwong # zgrep -i mtrr /proc/config.gz CONFIG_MT

Re: [gentoo-user] MTRR setting? Where could I have put it?

2009-01-22 Thread Dake Wang
r setting MTRR (base = 0xe800, size = 0x0200, type = 1) > Invalid argument (22) > > > > and the following > > > > e-nibbles wwong # dmesg | tail -n 5 > > pci :01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode > > [drm] Setting GART l

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-06 Thread Mick
be this? - > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface > > There is a kernel interface (under power management I think) and I seem > to remember some of my recent motherboards come with it. If you have a > dell, look up iDRECV which does something simi

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-25 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 05/15/2019 01:26 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > Here we go again; > https://mdsattacks.com/ > > I notice a microcode update for skylake came through yesterday after being > unchanged since the late June 2018, so i'm guessing this is patched for > this issue. Just waiting for th

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