Re: [CFT] AMD cpu microcode update port sysutils/devcpu-data D13832

Am 12.01.2018 um 00:03 schrieb Sean Bruno:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13832  <--- test this update
> 
> I'd like to get some feedback from AMD cpu users on this update.  I've
> restructured and undone a few things that may have been keeping folks
> using this port from getting their runtime cpu microcode updates.
> 
> After installing the port, grab your microcode version via
> sysutils/x86info.  If you don't see an update, that only means there is
> no update available for your system.
> 
> x86info -a | grep Microcode
> 
> Run the microcode_update and repeat.  Check /var/log/messages for a
> notification that the code was updated.  You should be able to get
> something like the following for your system if it executed an update:
> 
> root_at_lab:/home/sbruno # x86info -a | grep "CPU Model"
> CPU Model (x86info's best guess): AMD FX Series Processor (OR-B2)
> 
> root_at_lab:/home/sbruno # x86info -a | grep Microcode
> Microcode patch level: 0x6000629
> 
> root_at_lab:/home/sbruno # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/microcode_update onestart
> Updating CPU Microcode...
> Done.
> 
> root_at_lab:/home/sbruno # x86info -a | grep Microcode
> Microcode patch level: 0x600063d
> 
> root_at_lab:/home/sbruno # grep microcode_update /var/log/messages
> Jan 10 16:52:26 lab microcode_update:
> /usr/local/share/cpucontrol/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin: updating cpu
> /dev/cpuctl0 to revision 0x600063d... done.
> 

Just for the record, for an older Phenom with dmesg:

CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor (3214.31-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin="AuthenticAMD"  Id=0x100fa0  Family=0x10  Model=0xa  Stepping=0
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
  Features2=0x802009<SSE3,MON,CX16,POPCNT>
  AMD
Features=0xee500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
  AMD
Features2=0x37ff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,WDT>
  SVM: NP,NRIP,NAsids=64
  TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics


#x86info -a | grep "CPU Model"
CPU Model (x86info's best guess): Phenom/Athlon/Sempron/Turion
(II)/Opteron (PH-E0)

#x86info -a | grep Microcode
Microcode patch level: 0x10000bf

#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/microcode_update onestart
Updating CPU Microcode...
Done.

#x86info -a | grep Microcode
Microcode patch level: 0x10000bf

#grep microcode_update /var/log/messages
---

So no recent update and no log messages, as expected ;)

Regards,
Rainer Hurling