Hi, I have already sent this to Alan but some people on #kernelnewbies on irc complained about this Oops so I decided to send to all. (on the first round I cc'd:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Regards, Tigran diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/Documentation/Changes ucode-2.2/Documentation/Changes --- linux/Documentation/Changes Wed Dec 27 07:32:10 2000 +++ ucode-2.2/Documentation/Changes Wed Dec 27 07:46:42 2000 @@ -529,8 +529,8 @@ chmod 0644 /dev/cpu/microcode as root before you can use this. You'll probably also want to -get the user-space microcode_ctl utility to use with this. The utility is -available at: +get the user-space microcode_ctl utility (and, obviously, the microcode +data itself) to use with this. Both are available at: http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode @@ -539,29 +539,8 @@ alias char-major-10-184 microcode -to your /etc/modules.conf file. - - -Intel IA32 microcode -==================== - -A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode, -accessible as both a devfs regular file and as a normal (misc) -character device. If you are not using devfs you may need to: - -mkdir /dev/cpu -mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184 -chmod 0644 /dev/cpu/microcode - -as root before you can use this. You'll probably also want to -get the user-space microcode_ctl utility to use with this. - -If you have compiled the driver as a module you may need to add -the following line: - -alias char-major-10-184 microcode - -to your /etc/modules.conf file. +to your /etc/modules.conf file, unless you are using recent enough version +of modutils which knows about this by default. Where to get the files diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c ucode-2.2/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Wed Dec 27 07:32:10 2000 +++ ucode-2.2/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Wed Dec 27 07:52:07 2000 @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ * Pentium 4 support + backported fixes from 2.4 * 1.07 13 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * More bugfixes backported from 2.4 + * 1.08 27 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Fix: X86_FEATURE_30 was used incorrectly (in a 2.4 manner) */ #include <linux/init.h> @@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/processor.h> -#define MICROCODE_VERSION "1.07" +#define MICROCODE_VERSION "1.08" MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Intel CPU (IA-32) microcode update driver"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"); @@ -161,7 +163,7 @@ req->err = 1; /* be pessimistic */ if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL || c->x86 < 6 || - test_bit(X86_FEATURE_30, &c->x86_capability)) { /* IA64 */ + (c->x86_capability & X86_FEATURE_30) ) { /* IA64 */ printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: CPU%d not a capable Intel processor\n", cpu_num); return; } @@ -307,8 +309,8 @@ memset(mc_applied, 0, mc_fsize); kfree(mc_applied); mc_applied = NULL; - printk(KERN_WARNING "microcode: freed %d bytes\n", bytes); mc_fsize = 0; + printk(KERN_WARNING "microcode: freed %d bytes\n", +bytes); up(µcode_sem); return 0; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
