svn commit: r459464 - in head/sysutils/devcpu-data: . files

[Sean Bruno]

On 01/21/18 01:11, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> On Fri, 19-Jan-2018 at 19:28:08 +0000, Sean Bruno wrote:
>> Author: sbruno
>> Date: Fri Jan 19 19:28:08 2018
>> New Revision: 459464
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/459464
>>
>> Log:
>>   sysutils/devcpu-data: Revert back to legacy microcode.dat implementation.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>>   Either there is a problem with the Intel supplied microcode files or
>>   cpucontrol does not yet understand how to process a micrcode update file
>>   with multiple entries.
> 
> cpucontrol simply ignores all but the first one of concatenated updates
> (see my mail as of 18 Jan 2018 19:08:40). I don't know if this can be
> considered a problem with the Intel file (at least it's their file ;-))
> 
> Maybe a single file would work if it contained what cpucontrol calls
> "extended signature table" but I have no idea if this is an official
> and still supported Intel feature or where it came from...
> 

Yep.  I dug into the details of the files this week and that was my
conclusion as well.  In the file that I was proposing as a exception in
an earlier revision, it didn't have the extended sig table and one of
the bytes wasn't set correctly, so it was skipped entirely.

sean

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