Changeset ab0b034f

Timestamp:

01/30/2023 10:05:27 AM (15 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

b5da785b

Parents:

640313a

Message:

firmware: Do not assume the microcode files in /lib/firmware

We used to put microcode files there for late loading, but now late
loading is deprecated.

By the way, update Intel microcode update demonstrations.

File:

• postlfs/config/firmware.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

postlfs/config/firmware.xml

@@ -226 +226 @@
         secure version of the microcode, for those machines which can boot it, -->
         secure version of the microcode
-        is microcode-20220510.<!-- If you have a Skylake machine, please read the
+        is microcode-20221108.<!-- If you have a Skylake machine, please read the
         Caution in the 'Early loading of microcode' section below.-->  Extract this
         file in the normal way, the microcode is in the <filename>intel-ucode
@@ -338 +338 @@
       </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cp -v /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/&lt;MYCONTAINER&gt; kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>cp -v ../&lt;MYCONTAINER&gt; kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>
@@ -344 +344 @@
       </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cp -v /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/&lt;XX-YY-ZZ&gt; kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>cp -v ../intel-ucode/&lt;XX-YY-ZZ&gt; kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin</userinput></screen>
 
 <!-- new version from 20201110 release onwards, assumed to work on all skylakes
@@ -418 +418 @@
       </para>
 
-<screen><literal>[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xb2, date = 2022-03-17
-[    0.000000] Linux version 5.19.2 (xry111@xry111-X57S1) (gcc (GCC) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.39) #123 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Aug 20 21:14:29 CST 2022
-[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.19.2-lfs-11.2-systemd root=/dev/nvme0n1p7 ro
-[    0.435085] microcode: sig=0x706e5, pf=0x80, revision=0xb2
-[    0.435197] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.</literal></screen>
+<screen><literal>[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xb6, date = 2022-08-02
+[    0.000000] Linux version 6.1.6 (xry111@xry111-X57S1) (gcc (GCC) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.40) #32 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Jan 28 11:32:21 CST 2023
+[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.6-lfs-r11.2-34-systemd root=/dev/nvme0n1p7 ro
+[    0.454985] microcode: sig=0x706e5, pf=0x80, revision=0xb6
+[    0.455011] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.</literal></screen>