Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Riesen
Arjan van de Ven, Mon, Jul 02, 2007 19:18:29 +0200: > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:56 +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > > On 3/23/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-07-02 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:56 +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > On 3/23/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > > > old firmware files to the new format (eg > > >

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Riesen
On 3/23/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > old firmware files to the new format (eg > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from > I

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Andi Kleen
> I was mainly concerned with this being a new issue, and curious if > Microsoft was calling an O/S bug a "microcode fix," given that the > average Windows user doesn't know microcode from nanotech anyway. The > non-answer from Arjan didn't answer either, and started by calling the > report FUD

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 06/28/2007 11:27 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: But the problem is very obscure and you can likely ignore it too. If your machine crashes it's very likely something else. What about deliberate exploits of these bugs from userspace? Theo thinks they are possible... Do you have an

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> I was mainly concerned with this being a new issue, and curious if > Microsoft was calling an O/S bug a "microcode fix," given that the > average Windows user doesn't know microcode from nanotech anyway. The > non-answer from Arjan didn't answer either, and started by calling the then ask qu

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andi Kleen wrote: Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites That's a little misleading. Always dangerous getting your information from slashdot. Let's say Intel clarified some corner cas

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 28/06/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/28/2007 10:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: [snip] >> However, it listed only Windows related sites >> for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really >> fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 06/28/2007 10:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: (while I work for Intel this is not an official Intel statement, but there is so much FUD going around now that I feel I need to at least point out a few things others "forget") Slashdot carried an article this morning saying th

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/28/2007 10:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > (while I work for Intel this is not an official Intel statement, but > there is so much FUD going around now that I feel I need to at least > point out a few things others "forget") >> Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Alex Riesen
By any chance, do you known anything about microcode driver which uses standard firmware load interfaces (like those used by wlan card)? In particular, what format does the driver expect the microcode in? It didn't accept Tigran's files in past, does it accept them now? - To unsubscribe from this

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/28/2007 11:27 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > But the problem is very obscure and you can likely ignore it too. If your > machine crashes it's very likely something else. What about deliberate exploits of these bugs from userspace? Theo thinks they are possible... - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Andi Kleen
> Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel > microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites That's a little misleading. Always dangerous getting your information from slashdot. Let's say Intel clarified some corner cases in TLB flushing th

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
(while I work for Intel this is not an official Intel statement, but there is so much FUD going around now that I feel I need to at least point out a few things others "forget") > > > Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel > microcode was being fixed. don't just a

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andi Kleen wrote: "Daniel J Blueman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 23/03/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: Hi Shao-hua, Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the old firmware files to the new for

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-26 Thread Andi Kleen
"Daniel J Blueman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23/03/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > > Hi Shao-hua, > > > > > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > > > old firmware files to the n

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-06-26 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 23/03/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Hi Shao-hua, > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > old firmware files to the new format (eg > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-03-26 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Marcel Holtmann wrote: that is the whole point. The slash was never meant to be used. It was designed to take a filename or a pattern that will be later matched by userspace. However some developers are now trying to abuse this since the simple firmware helper script matches this directly to a fi

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-03-26 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Arjan, > > > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > > > > old firmware files to the new format (eg > > > > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from > > > > Intel (or otherwise) in this new format? > > > Yes, we are preparing the new

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-03-23 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:43 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Li, > > > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > > > old firmware files to the new format (eg > > > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from > > > Intel (or otherwise) in th

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-03-23 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Li, > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > > old firmware files to the new format (eg > > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from > > Intel (or otherwise) in this new format? > Yes, we are preparing the new format data files and m

Re: New format Intel microcode...

2007-03-22 Thread Shaohua Li
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Hi Shao-hua, > > Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the > old firmware files to the new format (eg > /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from > Intel (or otherwise) in this new fo

New format Intel microcode...

2007-03-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Hi Shao-hua, Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the old firmware files to the new format (eg /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from Intel (or otherwise) in this new format? Thanks, Dan --- [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/189377/ -- Danie