Bug#701694: Custom experimental 3.8-kernel-image built
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:33:11AM +0100, Andreas Glaeser wrote:
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> The boot-time error-message about microcode-update disappeared, but it still does not
> work. A different error-message shows in the dmesg-output, a bit later. It says something
> like 'family 0x0f not supported for microcode-update' now, maybe the CPU does not provide
> the feature although it is supposed to be of family 15.
> Otherwise the product, a custom built 3.8-kernel for my specific machine is quite OK. It
> does play back fullscreen-videos in HTML5-format from archive.org now.
> I watched this:
> http://archive.org/details/Kinetic_Art_Demo_Video
> It is not perfect quality, but fullscreen-playback works fluently. The overall impression
> is good, too.
If it is an AMD of family 0x0f, then no it does nor support updates.
I was confused for a while by the fact 0x15 does support it, but while
15 = 0x0f, 0x15 is of course not the same thing.
So from what I determined when looking at it, the early 64bit AMD CPUs
do not support microcode updates.
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Len Sorensen
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