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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2018 10:58:16 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre@fbsd.e4m.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r459464 - in head/sysutils/devcpu-data: . files
Message-ID:  <9387cf18-fc18-b00c-fdae-2942229513b9@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180121081159.GA1434@voyager>
References:  <201801191928.w0JJS8DL067070@repo.freebsd.org> <20180121081159.GA1434@voyager>

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From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>
To: Andre Albsmeier <andre@fbsd.e4m.org>
Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <9387cf18-fc18-b00c-fdae-2942229513b9@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r459464 - in head/sysutils/devcpu-data: . files
References: <201801191928.w0JJS8DL067070@repo.freebsd.org>
 <20180121081159.GA1434@voyager>
In-Reply-To: <20180121081159.GA1434@voyager>

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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 implementa=
tion.
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
>>   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.
>=20
> 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 ;-))=

>=20
> 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...
>=20

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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