On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:44 +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
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> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:17:16 BST, Tigran Aivazian said:
> >> Hi Valdis,
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> >>
> >>> I built the -rc8-mmotd kernel, and built it with 'CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
> > =n'.
> >>> Lo and behold, the microcode.ko was now doing a request_firmware for
> >>> 'intel-ucode/06-0f-06' (which makes sense, the Core2 Duo in this laptop is
> >>> family 6, model 15, stepping 6).  However, what I had in /lib/firmware was
> >>> the Intel-distributed 'microcode.dat' with updates for all the CPUs (which
> >>> used to work in times past).
> >>>
> >>> What's the magic incantation to take the microcode.dat and create something
> >>> that the firmware driver is willing to use, or is this all borked up and
> >>> I need to do a major rethink or fix my config?
> >>
> >> that's because it expects the Intel-supplied microcode data and you are
> >> using the old style microcode.dat data.
> >
> > I fed it the stuff I downloaded today from this URL:
> >
> > http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2643&OSFull...