Changeset d4208d0

Timestamp:

03/12/2024 09:41:35 PM (7 weeks ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

ken/TL2024, trunk

Children:

8d220a50

Parents:

3e923e5

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (03/12/2024 09:41:14 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (03/12/2024 09:41:35 PM)

Message:

firmware: Update to intel-microcode-20240312

Note that in Linux 6.8.0 the output of dmesg | grep -e ... command has
been changed significantly. The LFS book is still using 6.7.x but trunk
is for development and in this dev cycle we'll definitely update to
Linux > 6.8.0.

File:

• postlfs/config/firmware.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

postlfs/config/firmware.xml

@@ -231 +231 @@
         secure version of the microcode, for those machines which can boot it, -->
         secure version of the microcode
-        is microcode-20231114.  Extract this
+        is microcode-20240312.  Extract this
         file in the normal way, the microcode is in the <filename>intel-ucode
         </filename> directory, containing various blobs with names in the form
@@ -259 +259 @@
         CPU) the relevant values are cpu family 6, model 140, stepping 1 so
         in this case the required identification is 06-8c-01. The
-        releasenote says the latest microcode for it is versioned 0xb4.  If
+        releasenote says the latest microcode for it is versioned 0xb6.  If
         the value of the <quote>microcode</quote> field in
-        <filename>/proc/cpuinfo</filename> is 0xb4 or greater, it indicates
+        <filename>/proc/cpuinfo</filename> is 0xb6 or greater, it indicates
         the microcode update is already applied by the BIOS.  Otherwise,
         proceed to <xref linkend='early-microcode'/>.
@@ -414 +414 @@
       </para>
 
-<screen><literal>[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early: 0x86 -> 0xb4, date = 2023-09-07
-[    0.000000] Linux version 6.6.1 (xry111@stargazer) (gcc (GCC) 13.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.41) #36 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Nov 14 01:56:04 CST 2023
-[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.1 root=PARTUUID=<replaceable>&lt;CLASSIFIED&gt;</replaceable> ro
-[    0.424002] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.</literal></screen>
-
+<screen><literal>[    0.000000] Linux version 6.8.0 (xry111@stargazer) (gcc (GCC) 13.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42) #53 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar 12 20:01:39 CST 2024
+[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0 root=PARTUUID=<replaceable>&lt;CLASSIFIED&gt;</replaceable> ro
+[    0.571761] microcode: Current revision: 0x000000b6
+[    0.571771] microcode: Updated early from: 0x00000086</literal></screen>
 
       <para>