Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-12 Thread joe
Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: I think we need to make it configurable.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:34:39AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: How many different cores could you put in even the most popular socket, three? LGA775 currently has 19 (and may have more I don't know about). Using some rough

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:36:20PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Both patches Signed-off-by: Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] I checked that this doesn't break abuild, so far so good. On which hardware has this been tested so far? I'm reluctant to commit this without some broader testing on actual

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread joe
Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 11.01.2008 02:33, Corey Osgood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you mean the microcode files? If so, the microcode update looks like this: Header Update Revision Date

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: I think we need to make it configurable. I don't like that. With a factory bios, you expect the correct microcode update for your CPU to be present, no matter what CPU you put in a socket. (Actually no, not

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Corey Osgood
Peter Stuge wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: How many different cores could you put in even the most popular socket, three? LGA775 currently has 19 (and may have more I don't know about). Using some rough math, I get a rounded-down size of 186KB

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: I think we need to make it configurable. I don't like that. With a factory bios, you expect the correct microcode update for your CPU to be

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread ron minnich
note that on V3, we have the neat ability to put microcode in LAR, and find it there on boot. So we might have another top level directory: /microcode And then you can figure out, long after the bios is built, which microcode updates you want to support. ron -- linuxbios mailing list

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread joe
Quoting Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: I think we need to make it configurable. I don't like that. With a factory bios, you expect the correct

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:27:48PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: note that on V3, we have the neat ability to put microcode in LAR, and find it there on boot. So we might have another top level directory: /microcode And then you can figure out, long after the bios is built, which microcode

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-11 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: Peter Stuge wrote: I think we need to make it configurable. I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-10 Thread joe
Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've separated this into two patches, one code and one microcode, to improve readability, but they would both have to be committed at once (else things break). These patches eliminate a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-10 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've separated this into two patches, one code and one microcode, to improve readability, but they would both have to be committed at once (else things break).

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 11.01.2008 02:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you see any way to solve the size problem for sockets with too many different cores? Not sure what you mean? How many different cores could you put in even the most popular socket, three?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-10 Thread Corey Osgood
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: On 11.01.2008 02:33, Corey Osgood wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you mean the microcode files? If so, the microcode update looks like this: Header Update Revision Date Processor

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-10 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: How many different cores could you put in even the most popular socket, three? LGA775 currently has 19 (and may have more I don't know about). Using some rough math, I get a rounded-down size of 186KB (really is quite a bit

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-09 Thread joe
Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've separated this into two patches, one code and one microcode, to improve readability, but they would both have to be committed at once (else things break). These patches eliminate a lot of repeated code, make porting and adding new CPUs easier, add

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Intel refactoring and microcode updates

2008-01-09 Thread Corey Osgood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've separated this into two patches, one code and one microcode, to improve readability, but they would both have to be committed at once (else things break). These patches eliminate a lot of repeated code, make porting