Re: New format Intel microcode...

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Andi Kleen wrote:
"Daniel J Blueman" <[email protected]> writes:

On 23/03/07, Shaohua Li <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:45 +0000, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
Hi Shao-hua,

Is the tool you mentioned last June [1] available for splitting up the
old firmware files to the new format (eg
/lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-0d-06), or are updates available from
Intel (or otherwise) in this new format?
Yes, we are preparing the new format data files and maybe put it into a
new website. We will announce it when it's ready.
It's been a while; is there any sign of the ucode updates being
available, especially in light of the C2D/Q incorrect TLB invalidation
+ recent ucode to fix this?

That microcode update is not needed on any recent Linux kernel; it flushes
the TLBs in a way that is fine.

Slashdot carried an article this morning saying that an error in Intel microcode was being fixed. However, it listed only Windows related sites for the "fix" download. Is this the same TLB issue? And are these really fixes for Windows to flush the TLB properly the way Linux does?

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