On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:12:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Microcode updates will be applied immediately when the microcode > packages are installed or updated: you don't have to reboot. You will > have to keep the packages installed, though: as explained above, the > microcode updates have to be reapplied at every boot. > > You can check which version of the microcode your processors are running > by looking for "microcode" lines on /proc/cpuinfo. This information is > only available on recent kernels (such as the Wheezy kernel).
This did not appear to work for me automatically. I did not upgrade my kernel in the same aptitude session. Before: > $ grep microcode /proc/cpuinfo > microcode : 0x1b After installing intel-microcode and iucode-tool 0.8.3-1: > $ grep microcode /proc/cpuinfo > microcode : 0x1b After some manual fiddling > # iucode_tool --scan-system -vv > iucode_tool: cpuid kernel driver unavailable, cannot scan system processor > signatures > # modprobe cpuid > # iucode_tool --scan-system -vv > iucode_tool: trying to get CPUID information from /dev/cpu/0/cpuid > iucode_tool: system has processor(s) with signature 0x000206a7 > iucode_tool: trying to get CPUID information from /dev/cpu/1/cpuid > iucode_tool: trying to get CPUID information from /dev/cpu/2/cpuid > iucode_tool: trying to get CPUID information from /dev/cpu/3/cpuid > iucode_tool: checked the signature of 4 processor(s) > $ grep microcode /proc/cpuinfo > microcode : 0x28 > $ dpkg -S /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) > linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 > ii udev 175-7 amd64 /dev/ and hotplug management daem Shall I file a bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121106143209.GB17743@debian
