[Beowulf] cursed (and perhaps blessed) Intel microcode

Mark Hahn hahn at mcmaster.ca
Tue Mar 27 09:14:52 PDT 2018


>> But alas, it contains buggy 06-4f-01 microcode 0xb00002A.
>
> Are you sure?  I see this instead with the current version:
>
> chris at quad:/tmp$ iucode_tool -L microcode-20180312/intel-ucode/06-4f-01
> microcode bundle 1: microcode-20180312/intel-ucode/06-4f-01
>  001/001: sig 0x000406f1, pf_mask 0xef, 2017-03-01, rev 0xb000021, size 26624

sorry, typo.  yes, it contains the buggy 0xb000021,
from January, not the expected/desired 0xb00002A.

can I take it that you're looking for the update too (and don't have it)?

thanks, mark.


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