pvops microcode support for AMD FAM >= 15
Debian has decided to take Jeremy's microcode patch [0] as an interim
measure for their next release. (TL;DR -- Debian is shipping pvops Linux
3.2 and Xen 4.1 in the next release. See http://bugs.debian.org/693053
and https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00141.html for some
more background).
However the patch is a bit old and predates the use introduction of
separate firmware files for AMD family >= 15h. Looking at the SuSE
forward ported classic Xen patches it seems like the following patch is
all that is required. But it seems a little too simple to be true and I
don't have any such processors to test on.
Jan, can you recall if it really is that easy on the kernel side ;-)
Ian.
[0]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/upstream/microcode
commit 109cf37876567ef346c0ecde8b473e7ad1e74e07
Author: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Date: Mon Nov 26 09:41:02 2012 +0000
microcode_xen: Add support for AMD family >= 15h
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_xen.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_xen.c
index 9d2a06b..2b8a78a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_xen.c
@@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ static enum ucode_state xen_request_microcode_fw(int cpu, struct device *device)
break;
case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
- snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin");
+ /* Beginning with family 15h AMD uses family-specific firmware files. */
+ if (c->x86 >= 0x15)
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam%.2xh.bin", c->x86);
+ else
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin");
break;
default:
--
Ian Campbell
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