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 1PfIjv-0006Sf-OM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:05:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A255E0918 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:05:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E57E0992 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwg12 with SMTP id 12so113315bwg.40 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:42:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=LPXKk+Znde7hyKWUT28uKVHa1rZoqoEdnZ99OfT3DkE=; b=g5T+Zh4oWp4HiAUwv+nZATpm2GFdpwz8+vblFcaaarareUH3iVLU5i+zWON2dVmq+t QowsZudW4qlM9CJJlEN5dbKRo2Vu6dx7KSR/HqVg2h0vDZ0VAxgBdsfGhaz6ZOCDUPsq SyiUPoZGiwPLhAdPxxE0s4VoQYbrYxvauwYaQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=noDx7A5/IbU9KewjrDg5zOZE5oe+PzUm9Bt50H17SpYrFhXc+OIFOYt3+GH6Xh9xq8 X0DwwiWh3e5V2raKNV1TbbbYXDfNR7vpyyBj8Qyf3dmI1hvbEYpaxW9e9ZVzG+wEA4rv b8wDuzj3Nhy8Gk+IZoAQlj9TN+DZT22vojR48= 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 Received: by 10.204.113.75 with SMTP id z11mr3962657bkp.90.1295383326258; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:42:06 -0800 (PST) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.18.197 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:42:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20110117172148.GD5748@solfire> <4d3493c4.0297df0a.7fb2.ffffc8c0@mx.google.com> <20110117191904.GM5748@solfire> <4d349ca2.0297df0a.5e61.ffffd0dc@mx.google.com> <1295324985.21821.37.camel@rattus> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:42:05 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: F-m4JrERzQIjGKOtLXy-4FAx-lo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2da85158c89a06dcf9e03cb8d35ad633 On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> OK, I got it to load by hand: >>> >>> 1) emerge microcode-ctl >>> >>> which also emerges microcode-data. Unfortunately microcode-data looks >>> to be out of date. >> >> The ebuild for newer versions (including the latest 20101123) is in >> portage as ~amd64 and ~x86. >> >> > > Thanks Paul. > > Also, it does seem to work, for Intel anyway, as a module or built > into the kernel. I chose to build it in as I'm tired of how long lsmod > is looking these days. If you use the /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl runscript and have MICROCODE_UNLOAD="yes" set in /etc/conf.d/microcode_ctl (which is the default), it will unload the module automatically after it runs, so you shouldn't see it in lsmod anyway, and saves a few kb of memory. But, quite honestly, 8kb of memory is probably inconsequential on a system where microcode_ctl is being used in the first place... :)