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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode update system in non-free



Le Mon  5/11/2012, Dr Beco disait
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I would like to bring to your attention the improved support for system
> > processor (CPU) microcode updates, for x86/i686/x86-64/amd64 systems
> > that was recently added to [non-free] Wheezy.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Henrique for the announcement.
> 
> Hoping to add some 'reference', so we can compare actual microcode
> versions, I find myself with
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep microcode
> microcode 0x1b
> ...
> 
> Now, what is the version of the updated microcode?
> 
> My best,
> Beco
> 

It depends on the processor.

On a core i3 I had 0x2, and now have 0x3

Logs are

Nov  5 21:36:08 regulateur kernel: [   10.992859] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x20655, pf=0x2, revision=0x2
Nov  5 21:36:08 regulateur kernel: [   10.994935] microcode: CPU0 updated to revision 0x3, date = 2011-09-01



-- 
Erwan


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