On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:50:09AM -0600, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:46:23 -0600 > Dutch Ingraham <stoa@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > I'm having an issue with Intel microcode loading. Specifically, the microcode > > does not appear to be loading the latest version: > > > > ~ $ dmesg | grep microcode > > [ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x19, date = 2013-06-21 > > [ 0.931272] microcode: sig=0x106a5, pf=0x2, revision=0x19 > > [ 0.931319] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2. > > > > > > My processor is: > > > > ~ $ grep -E 'family|model|stepping' -m 4 /proc/cpuinfo > > cpu family : 6 > > model : 26 > > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3503 @ 2.40GHz > > stepping : 5 > > > > The Intel website indicates the latest version of microcode for this processor > > is version 20171117 [1]. However, as indicated above, the version loaded at > > boot is dated 2013-06-21. > > > > I have the latest stable version of intel-ucode installed: > > > > ~ $ pacman -Q intel-ucode > > intel-ucode 20180108-1 > > > > I have updated GRUB with <grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg>, and rebooted. > > The grub.cfg file shows, as the last line in the menuentry: > > 'initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img' > > > > I am using a stock kernel: > > > > ~ $ uname -a > > Linux arch2 4.15.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 22 22:15:20 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > > > Can someone help me determine what is going on here? > > > > > > [1] https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27337/Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-File?product=40799 > > You're looking at the dates that the last *bundle* was released. That says > nothing about what firmware is available for your processor. Your microcode was > "updated early", so it is being loaded just fine. > > Scimmia Thanks, Scimmia. I had considered that, but thought that would have been spelled-out somewhere on Intel's site and didn't want to just assume. So, how does one determine what files are on the .img?
