severity 683161 important
tag 683161 confirmed
clone 683161 -1
reassign -1 iucode-tool
retitle -1 iucode-tool: bad --scan-system failure mode
found -1 iucode-tool/0.8-1
tags -1 + fixed-upstream confirmed
tags 683161 + patch
thanks
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Package: intel-microcode
> Version: 1.20120606.2
>
> The cpuid driver is required for this to work, without it it fails silently:
Yes. I have iucode-tool 0.8.2 undergoing testing, and it changes two
things when cpuid fails: 1. it complains, and 2. it fails safely (includes
all microcodes).
I will upload it shortly.
> This fix this, the /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/intel-microcode could
> be modified to something like this
>
> |if [ -z "${IUCODE_TOOL}" -o "${IUCODE_TOOL_SCANCPUS}" != "yes" ] ; then
> | verbose "Adding microcode for all Intel processor models"
> |else
> | verbose "Adding microcode for currently online Intel processors"
> | if [ $(grep cpu/cpuid /proc/devices | wc -l) -eq 0 ]
> | then
> | modprobe cpuid
> | fi
> | if [ $(grep cpu/cpuid /proc/devices | wc -l) -eq 1 ]
> | then
> | IUCODE_TOOL_OPTIONS="${IUCODE_TOOL_OPTIONS} --scan-system"
> | else
> | verbose "msr module not found. IUCODE_TOOL_SCANCPUS can not
> work"
> | fi
> |fi
Something like that, yes. I will fix it in intel-microcode so that it
modprobes cpuid.
Thanks for the report.
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