From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PevKd-0001p1-59 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:05:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE43BE0938 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27A2EE097A for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:19:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2011 19:19:03 -0000 Received: from p54851BA3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.27.163] by mail.gmx.net (mp050) with SMTP; 17 Jan 2011 20:19:03 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+BvO1kcvWBrLCydgV8FcD8pDSSxO8CqY/FNHodyr EtzVPBLk0o6eT0 Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:19:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:19:04 +0100 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD Message-ID: <20110117191904.GM5748@solfire> References: <20110117172148.GD5748@solfire> <4d3493c4.0297df0a.7fb2.ffffc8c0@mx.google.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4d3493c4.0297df0a.7fb2.ffffc8c0@mx.google.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: a3b04937-eabb-4667-bb4d-e907607b9f5f X-Archives-Hash: 7dad88a04b874f4a6cfb7ebd0168290b Volker Armin Hemmann [11-01-17 20:16]: > On Monday 17 January 2011 18:21:48 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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 > > "microcode" ? (AMD Phenom X6 1090T) > > > > you ALWAYS have to activate that! This way the bios updates the microcode with > the latest version it is carrying around. Not activating that option is > really, really stupid. For many reasons. It is also (almost) completely > unrelated to that blob. > > That blob is for the OS so you can upload an even more recent version of > microcode. In case your bios sucks. For example. > > > 2) Does anyone know, what these microcodes do? They are fixes for... > > ...what? > > the CPU. All CPUs use microcode. For decades. Google, or go straight to > wikipedia. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode > Cool down. I know for waht microcodes are good for. My question means: What specific bugs/features of my CPU get fixed, when I use the microcde included in the recent microcode update???