Changeset 1c1bdba

Timestamp:

02/23/2018 11:51:03 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

39e9acce

Parents:

8c2155e

Message:

firmware: Update the intel microcode examples to the current, i.e. old, release and the 4.15.3 kernel. Nobody commented on the bogosity in my previous late-load example, but it is gone now.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@19853 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/config/firmware.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

postlfs/config/firmware.xml

@@ -181 +181 @@
       <para>This example from the Haswell i7 which was released in Q2 2014 and is
       not affected by the TSX errata shows it has been updated from revision 0x19
-      in the BIOS/UEFI to revision 0x23. Unlike in older kernels, the individual
-      CPUs are not separately reported:</para>
-
-<screen><literal>[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.12 (lfs@plexi) (gcc version 7.2.0 (GCC) )
-               #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 9 16:00:00 GMT 2018
-[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.14.12-sda7 root=/dev/sda7 ro
-[    0.913685] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x23
-[    0.913905] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
-[  148.723932] microcode: updated to revision 0x23, date = 2017-11-28</literal></screen>
-    <para>That may be followed by individual reports for each core.</para>
+      in the BIOS/UEFI (which this version of hte kernel now complains about) to
+      revision 0x22. Unlike in older kernels, the individual CPUs are not separately
+      reported:</para>
+
+<screen><literal>[    0.000000] Linux version 4.15.3 (ken@plexi) (gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC))
+               #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 23 03:13:53 GMT 2018
+[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.3-sda6 root=/dev/sda6 ro
+[    0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata;
+               please update microcode to version: 0x22 (or later)
+[    0.482712] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x19
+[    0.482937] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
+[  402.668612] microcode: updated to revision 0x22, date = 2017-01-27</literal></screen>
 
     <para>If the microcode was not updated, there is no new microcode for
@@ -304 +306 @@
       is mentioned:</para>
 
-<screen><literal>[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x23, date = 2017-11-20
-[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.12 (lfs@plexi) (gcc version 7.2.0 (GCC) )
-               #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 9 17:58:53 GMT 2018
-[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.14.12-sda7 root=/dev/sda7 ro
-[    0.928947] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x23
-[    0.929160] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.</literal></screen>
+<screen><literal>[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x22, date = 2017-01-27
+[    0.000000] Linux version 4.15.3 (ken@plexi) (gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC))
+               #3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 23 05:06:50 GMT 2018
+[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.3-sda6 root=/dev/sda6 ro
+[    0.489478] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x22
+[    0.489747] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.</literal></screen>
 
       <para>An AMD example:</para>