Re: New format Intel microcode...

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 23/03/07, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +0000, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>>>> Hi Shao-hua,
>>>>
>>>> Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the
>>>> old firmware files to the new format (eg
>>>> /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from
>>>> Intel (or otherwise) in this new format?
>>> Yes, we are preparing the new format data files and maybe put it into a
>>> new website. We will announce it when it's ready.
>> It's been a while; is there any sign of the ucode updates being
>> available, especially in light of the C2D/Q incorrect TLB invalidation
>> + recent ucode to fix this?
> 
> That microcode update is not needed on any recent Linux kernel; it flushes
> the TLBs in a way that is fine.
> 
Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel 
microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites 
for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really 
fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does?

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