Description of problem: Current development kernels 4.4.x do not report any microcode update according to the output of dmesg. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-4.4.0-0.rc2.git2.1.fc24 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system running the current Fedora development tree. 2. Run dmesg command. Actual results: No sign of microcode update. Expected results: Successful microcode update is being reported. Additional info: Feature works as expected in Fedora 23.
You need a fixed dracut for this. The detection it used doesn't work for 4.4 kernels.
dracut-044
Current Fedora rawhide including dracut-044-6.git20151201.fc24 and kernel-4.4.0-0.rc3.git3.1.fc24 still does not show any (familiar) sign of a successful microcode update in the output of dmesg.
What is the ouput of: $ lsinitrd | head -15
Image: /boot/initramfs-4.4.0-0.rc3.git4.1.fc24.x86_64.img: 19M ======================================================================== Version: dracut-044-6.git20151201.fc24 Arguments: -f dracut modules: bash systemd systemd-initrd i18n network ifcfg drm plymouth
Care to post the output of: # dracut --debug --force /var/tmp/test.img # rm -f /var/tmp/test.img
I have to apologize, the correct reply to comment 4 is: Image: /boot/initramfs-4.4.0-0.rc3.git4.1.fc24.x86_64.img: 21M ======================================================================== Early CPIO image ======================================================================== drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 1 09:08 . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Dec 1 09:08 early_cpio drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 1 09:08 kernel drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 1 09:08 kernel/x86 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 1 09:08 kernel/x86/microcode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Dec 1 09:08 kernel/x86/microcode/Genu ineIntel.bin ======================================================================== Version: dracut-044-6.git20151201.fc24 Arguments: -f