Hi,

Sorry if this has already been reported -- between next-20101202 and
next-20101220, microcode updating on my Core i7 laptop has started to
take 60 seconds per core:

[   10.602245] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[   10.609630] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[   71.118766] microcode: CPU2 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[  131.989437] microcode: CPU3 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[  192.859936] microcode: CPU4 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[  253.986252] microcode: CPU5 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[  314.856982] microcode: CPU6 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[  375.727604] microcode: CPU7 sig=0x106e5, pf=0x10, revision=0x3
[  436.598180] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet. co.uk>, Peter Oruba

Full dmesg and .config attached.  Thanks,