From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262224AbTJGNsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:48:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262269AbTJGNsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:48:17 -0400 Received: from bay-bridge.veritas.com ([143.127.3.10]:7500 "EHLO mtvmime02.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262224AbTJGNsN (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:48:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 06:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Tigran Aivazian To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, , "Nakajima, Jun" Subject: Re: RFC: changes to microcode update driver. In-Reply-To: <3F82C0EF.1040002@debian.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Is microcode_ctl still maintained? I've made some correction/extentions but now > new from the maintainer. Yes, I believe Simon is alive and well. (but busy, as we all are) > Intel give us the new microcode? I had contact with the new contact/maintainer/? > person in Intel, but still no new microcode since summer 2001. So maybe before > changing the driver, could you check the Intel vision about Linux and microcode? I am communicating with Intel guys from time to time and there are some interesting changes from Intel in the pipeline to update the driver, but I thought it is worthwhile to cleanup and throw away unnecessary bits before applying a major update (otherwise we would be wasting time debugging an update to code which is no longer needed). As for the microcode data itself, no, I haven't received anything new from Intel yet but please be patient. I have received unofficial latest "hacked" version of microcode data from someone (outside Intel) but it will not be uploaded because it will cause support problems both to Intel and myself. I find it is wiser to be friendly with Intel than to annoy them with constant questions "where is the latest microcode data" :) Kind regards Tigran