From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752279AbaIAUgI (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:36:08 -0400 Received: from mail-am1lrp0014.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([213.199.154.14]:49098 "EHLO emea01-am1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751082AbaIAUgG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:36:06 -0400 From: Conrad Kostecki To: "Linux (Kernel) Mailingliste (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org)" Subject: AW: Early microcode not being loaded Thread-Topic: Early microcode not being loaded Thread-Index: Ac+iyGu0bjnYxuYsRMClhSHnVLMEqQABjuOAAADRWAAIz+TOwAAEE7IAAACWpWA= Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 20:36:01 +0000 Message-ID: <53f0d26fec8e47be81dd395da4cc94ed@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> References: <20140718212427.GB11098@pd.tnic> <4c348de3b92a49c58bf17777873410dd@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <06765c8a9ea84f8a81d595e05dcfe10e@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <20140901201752.GB18675@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20140901201752.GB18675@khazad-dum.debian.net> Accept-Language: de-DE, en-US Content-Language: de-DE X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [2003:56:2f1b:4520:bd2a:3d5e:8000:5745] x-microsoft-antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;UriScan:;UriScan:; x-forefront-prvs: 03218BFD9F x-forefront-antispam-report: SFV:NSPM;SFS:(979002)(6009001)(41574002)(199003)(189002)(92566001)(95666004)(21056001)(85306004)(86362001)(83072002)(31966008)(81542001)(105586002)(87936001)(81342001)(46102001)(79102001)(110136001)(15975445006)(85852003)(74662001)(64706001)(90102001)(20776003)(83322001)(101416001)(4396001)(76576001)(99396002)(229853001)(75402002)(77982001)(74316001)(108616004)(74482001)(76176999)(106356001)(33646002)(107886001)(19580395003)(50986999)(93886004)(2656002)(54356999)(107046002)(3826002)(24736002)(969003)(989001)(999001)(1009001)(1019001);DIR:OUT;SFP:;SCL:1;SRVR:DB4PR04MB266;H:DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com;FPR:;MLV:ovrnspm;PTR:InfoNoRecords;A:1;MX:1;LANG:en; authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=ck@conrad-kostecki.de; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:; X-OriginatorOrg: conrad-kostecki.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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