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From: Conrad Kostecki <ck@conrad-kostecki.de>
To: "Linux (Kernel) Mailingliste (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org)" 
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: AW: Early microcode not being loaded
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 20:36:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53f0d26fec8e47be81dd395da4cc94ed@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140901201752.GB18675@khazad-dum.debian.net>

> That file is way too big.  In fact, it is exactly the size of the newest ".dat" file from Intel.  The kernel doesn't grok that text format, the microcode updates have to be converted to binary format, first.

> I suggest you use "iucode_tool -S --write-earlyfw=ucode.cpio" to generate your ucode.cpio.

> You can find iucode-tool at:
> https://gitorious.org/iucode-tool/pages/Home

Thanks! That's it. I wasn't aware, that I need to convert first the microcode to binary. It's now working fine.

Cheers
Conrad


      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-18 20:40 Conrad Kostecki
2014-07-18 21:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-18 21:49   ` AW: " Conrad Kostecki
2014-09-01 18:21     ` Conrad Kostecki
2014-09-01 20:17       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-01 20:36         ` Conrad Kostecki [this message]

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