[Gllug] Microcode update

[Simon Trimmer]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 07:42:53PM -0700, Simon Trimmer wrote:
>  > It's not really for hackers but for administrators... have you looked at the
>  > length of the errata for the pentium pros? <cue insane cackling>
>
> The P4 one isn't much better 8-)

Not too surprised there, browsing the architecture manuals they seem to have
tweaked quite a bit. That's a source of annoyance at the moment, the
mechanism for setting at the performance counters changed so oprofile doesn't
run on P4s

>  > I think Debian have had it in unstable for a while (data has an non gpl intel
>  > licence, hence my opinions on debian fanaticism) and I see Redhat 7.3 is
>  > now shipping it, not sure about SuSE?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, we ship the tool, but not the microcode.
> I recall suggesting to our packaging folks that we should do the
> debian thing and have a script that runs off and fetches it from
> your webpage, but I don't know if that ever got added..
>
> I'll find out when I get back from .de next week, as I've got to
> finish the install of my quad ppro 8-)

Well, if it helps the scripters I can add a consistent latest link into the
ucode directory?

Good luck with the quad :)

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>



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