[Nix-dev] Experiences with Nvidia Optimus?

[Arie Middelkoop]

On 05-02-12 11:48, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> I haven't seen (or needed) microcode related stuff since then, but I
> got curious after your commit.
>
> A quick look at archlinux gives:
> http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/intel-ucode
>
> In other words: you are right, no tool is needed any longer, but you
> need to convert the .dat file into some more generic format.
> Tool is given there.

Thanks. It should now work. After I 'modprobe microcode':

> [   20.037726] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x206a7, pf=0x10, revision=0x23
> [   20.041392] microcode: CPU0 updated to revision 0x25, date = 2011-10-11
> ...
> [   20.065190] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran at aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba

Arie