Bug 248307

Can you tell me some more about the system in question? I'd like the output of:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

As well as anything else you can provide.

> cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3066.060
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 3
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6134.26
clflush size    : 64

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3066.060
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 3
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6130.73
clflush size    : 64

> 

What more do you need? It's a HP ProLiant DL360 G3 server. Please tell me some 
commands etc. if you would like to have more output.

looks like the microcode driver got switched to use request_firmware recently.

Unfortunatly that interface doesn't seem to have a 'fail silently' mode.

It's harmless, as you don't *need* newer microcode, it's just a 'nice to have'.

Also interesting is that there aren't any releases of the microcode data in that
new format afaik.

actually, not all that recently it seems...

commit a30a6a2cb0fdc2c9701d6ddfb21affeb8146c038
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li>
Date:   Wed Sep 27 01:50:52 2006 -0700

    [PATCH] x86 microcode: using request_firmware to pull microcode

Mar 15 17:31:00 tux firmware.sh[764]: Cannot find  firmware file
'intel-ucode/0f-02-09'
Mar 15 17:31:00 tux kernel: IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a
<tigran.co.uk>
Mar 15 17:31:00 tux firmware.sh[769]: Cannot find  firmware file
'intel-ucode/0f-02-09'

FYI, this problem is present in Fedora8 as well.  From system log:

kernel: IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran.co.uk>
firmware.sh[10770]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'
firmware.sh[11008]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'
firmware.sh[11012]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'
firmware.sh[11016]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'
firmware.sh[11020]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'
firmware.sh[11024]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'
firmware.sh[11028]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'
firmware.sh[11032]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-17-06'

This on a fully-updated F8/x86_64 system with dual quad-core Xeon CPUs.

Yeah, this isn't a bug in microcode_ctl per se. It's also not actually a problem
because the microcode is still going to be loaded. I'd put a simple symlink in
place, but that creates a newer dep. between the kernel and microcode_ctl that
will constantly be out of date. Hmmm...

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Ping?

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

On a current "rawhide" system to which microcode_ctl-1.17-1.46.fc10.i386 has been added due to the absence of a current package from the F11 branch (bug 497711), I do observe the same issue after loading module "microcode" and executing 'microcode_ctl -u':

  kernel: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/0f-02-09
  kernel: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran.co.uk>,
          Peter Oruba
  firmware.sh[22232]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/0f-02-09'

The system is a somewhat old Pentium 4 system:

  processor       : 0
  vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
  cpu family      : 15
  model           : 2
  model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
  stepping        : 9
  cpu MHz         : 2000.000
  cache size      : 128 KB
  fdiv_bug        : no
  hlt_bug         : no
  f00f_bug        : no
  coma_bug        : no
  fpu             : yes
  fpu_exception   : yes
  cpuid level     : 2
  wp              : yes
  flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
                    cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss
                    ht tm pbe up pebs bts cid xtpr
  bogomips        : 3993.68
  clflush size    : 64
  power management:

What is strange is that the ucode update used to work until a few weeks ago, thus during the F11 development cycle, on said system. In the successful case, a message that the ucode had been updated from version 0x.. to 0x.. was issued.

(In reply to comment #11)
Sorry for this false alert: it appears that this spurious error message occurs when module "microcode" is loaded. 'dmesg' correctly reports

  "microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 0x11 to 0x2e, date = 2004-08-11" .

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

this bug may presents at Fedora 12 

[lion@lion ~]$sudo less /var/log/messages
...
Sep 15 16:50:49 lion kernel: microcode: CPU0 sig=0xf65, pf=0x4, revision=0xb
Sep 15 16:50:49 lion kernel: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucod
e/0f-06-05
Sep 15 16:50:49 lion kernel: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran
et.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
Sep 15 16:50:49 lion firmware.sh[3739]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/0f-06-05'
Sep 15 16:50:49 lion kernel: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 removed.
..

===========

[lion@lion ~]$ sudo vi /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl
...
ARGUMENTS=-u
....
[lion@lion ~]$ sudo rm  /dev/.udev/firmware-missing/intel-ucode\\x2f0f-06-05
[lion@lion ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl start
Applying Intel CPU microcode update: /sbin/microcode_ctl: writing microcode (length: 411648)
/sbin/microcode_ctl: microcode successfuly written to /dev/cpu/microcode
                                                           [  OK  ]
[lion@lion ~]$ls -l  /dev/.udev/firmware-missing/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 2009-09-15 17:30 intel-ucode\x2f0f-06-05 -> /devices/platform/microcode/firmware/microcode


[lion@lion ~]$ gpk-update-icon -v

...
TI:11:13:09     FI:gpk-firmware.c       FN:gpk_firmware_add_file,876
 - filename=/dev/.udev/firmware-missing/intel-ucode/0f-06-05 -> /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/0f-06-05
*** WARNING ***
TI:11:13:09     FI:gpk-firmware.c       FN:gpk_firmware_get_device,812
 - Failed to get symlink: Error stating file '/dev/.udev/firmware-missing/intel-ucode/0f-06-05': No such file or directory


...

Still present in FC12:

[root@bookcase fc12-kernel]# modprobe microcode ; microcode_ctl -u ; rmmod microcode
microcode_ctl: writing microcode (length: 447488)
microcode_ctl: microcode successfuly written to /dev/cpu/microcode

# tail /var/log/messages
...
Jan 31 14:12:48 bookcase klogd: microcode: CPU0 sig=0x6f6, pf=0x1, revision=0xcb
Jan 31 14:12:48 bookcase klogd: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-06
Jan 31 14:12:48 bookcase klogd: microcode: CPU1 sig=0x6f6, pf=0x1, revision=0xcb
Jan 31 14:12:48 bookcase klogd: platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-06
Jan 31 14:12:48 bookcase klogd: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
Jan 31 14:12:48 bookcase firmware.sh[2804]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-0f-06'
Jan 31 14:12:48 bookcase firmware.sh[2810]: Cannot find  firmware file 'intel-ucode/06-0f-06'
Jan 31 14:12:59 bookcase klogd: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 removed.

/proc/cpuinfo says this is a 
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            3040  @ 1.86GHz
stepping        : 6

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As mentioned above - present in F12, at current rate, likely to be present in F13 as well.

Still affecting Rawhide.

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