On Saturday 17 November 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: >On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:35:17PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >> One possibility is that BIOS already incorporated all patches (which >> typically is the case) and so the driver doesn't have to do anything. > >/proc/cpuinfo contains ucode version and the processor's f/m/s, which >is enough information to tell us whether your old phenom needs ucode >patching. > >Thanks. Well, in my case that returns 4 stanza's of this: processor : 3 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 2210.462 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 3 initial apicid : 3 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs bogomips : 4420.70 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
And I don't see anything there that looks like a 'patch level'. The ucode obviously can, which is what counts in this game of horseshoes. Perhaps something in that very long 'flags' string? Thanks Borislav. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! Biz is better. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/