Re: Q: Seeing the microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> After several reboots due to memory errors after excellent power-saving of
> Linux on a HP DL380G7 with Intel Xeon 5650 processors (all in on memory
> bank), I found out the errate "BD104" and "BD123". The former should be
> fixed in a microcode revision "15H".

Hmm, BD104 is indeed nasty.  And that microcode update is not available
to the general public (i.e. through downloadcenter.intel.com).

> Now I wonder what microcode revision my CPUs currently have. /proc/cpuinfo
> doesn't show that, and the microcode update is a bit cryptic:
> 
> kernel: [   44.422912] microcode: CPU23 sig=0x206c2, pf=0x1, revision=0x14

You have revision 0x14.

Presumably, you will get revision 0x15 if you update the HP firmware in
that box.  The update you need was published by HP nearly an year ago.

> Does that mean the revision is 0x14 BEFORE or AFTER the microcode update?

Before.  The message you get when the CPU is updated is different.

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