Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-06-05 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 05/26/2018 07:51 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: > On 05/25/2018 08:50 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> > For me dmesg says; >> > [    1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 >> > >> > but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ? >> . >> This is my dmesg outp

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-28 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/27/2018 06:12 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > Also, are you saying that the sequence of events for you was; > - booted with new microcode, and lwp was missing from /proc/cpuinfo > - you had instability > - you rebuilt with -mno-lwp > - stability returned . - quickpackage'd 'sys-kernel/linux-firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-27 Thread Adam Carter
> > I should have clarified ... the '-mno-lwp' was added as a result of the > comparison of the two /proc/cpuinfo files. I was very curious about WHAT > exactly the microcode update did. > > The CPU I am using is a FX-9590. > > Question : Is there a PSP in your CPU? > According to libreboot, only

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-26 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/25/2018 08:50 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > For me dmesg says; > > [    1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 > > > > but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ? > . > This is my dmesg output : > . > [    1.111448] microcode: micro

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > > For me dmesg says; > > [1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 > > > > but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ? > . > This is my dmesg output : > . > [1.111448] microcode: microcode updated early to new > patch_level=0x06000852 > Ok then it looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-25 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/24/2018 05:32 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > For me dmesg says; > [    1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 > > but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ? . This is my dmesg output : . [    1.111448] microcode: microcode updated early to new patch_level=0x060008

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-24 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > FYI : > > Did the microcode update, compiled and installed the 4.9.101 kernel with > it. > After rebooting, I started having kernel hard lock problems. > > Before compiling / installing kernel 4.9.102, I made an addition to the > CFLAGS var i

[gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-23 Thread Corbin Bird
FYI : Did the microcode update, compiled and installed the 4.9.101 kernel with it. After rebooting, I started having kernel hard lock problems. Before compiling / installing kernel 4.9.102, I made an addition to the CFLAGS var in make.conf : -mno-lwp ( 'lwp' is 'Light Weight Profiling' ) No kern