[Discussion] UBU Tool related Questions, Reports and Suggestions (222)

Can someone tell me, why these ucodes are marked outdated?

I checked DB and don't see anything newer there for cpuid+platform.

Just have one idea. Maybe it's because there exist combined version ? Or I just blind and don't see anywhere newer ones for that platform?
I have that ones:
45nm \ 10676h desktop + mobile (platform 91h = 01h + 10h + 80h) \ cpu00010676_plat00000091_ver00000612_date20150802_crc-1750a2a6.bin
45nm \ 1067Ah desktop + mobile (platform B1h = 01h + 10h + A0h) \ cpu0001067a_plat000000b1_ver00000a0e_date20150729_crc-59bf808e.bin
That can explain some "outdated".

But two another are the same version as this
45nm \ 10676h 771 (platform 44h = 04h + 40h) \ cpu00010676_plat00000044_ver0000060f_date20100929_crc-8fe1a203.bin
and this is 'Latest'... just because it is combined from 2 and more preferred to use ?

At the end I assembled this set. Hope it will be good enough to run in place of old one.

Can somebody please share these ones, or tell where to get them?

cpu000206a2_plat00000012_ver00000027_date20100502_crc-EB510B0E.bin
cpu000206a3_plat00000012_ver00000009_date20100609_crc-261BDACD.bin
cpu000206a6_plat00000012_ver90030028_date20100924_crc-61B02B84.bin
cpu000306a2_plat00000012_ver0000000C_date20110725_crc-45CEAA5F.bin
cpu000306a5_plat00000012_ver00000009_date20111110_crc-9F575F21.bin

Zitat von b1Ack im Beitrag #139

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Can somebody please share these ones, or tell where to get them?

cpu000206a2_plat00000012_ver00000027_date20100502_crc-EB510B0E.bin
cpu000206a3_plat00000012_ver00000009_date20100609_crc-261BDACD.bin
cpu000206a6_plat00000012_ver90030028_date20100924_crc-61B02B84.bin
cpu000306a2_plat00000012_ver0000000C_date20110725_crc-45CEAA5F.bin
cpu000306a5_plat00000012_ver00000009_date20111110_crc-9F575F21.bin

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Hello!
Can somebody please share this one, or tell where to get it?

cpu40651_plat72_ver00000021_2017-11-20_PRD_2B637CE4

Do you guys think we can expect microcode updates for the Spectre, Hardware support for branch target injection mitigation?

How is the distinction between PRD and PRE (production and pre-production) made?

@plutomaniac

I need a confirmation that i understand right how works the new 1.12.0 version to be sure to do the right thing with my bios.

I have 2 microcodes in my bios that are now listed as outdated but never were before in previous version of MC Extractor and no new microcodes got out for those. A -search confirmed this.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Intel |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| # | CPUID | Platform | Version | Date | Release | Status |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| 1 | 106A2 | 03 [0, 1] | FFFF0019 | 2008-07-14 | Pre-Production | Latest |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| 2 | 106A4 | 01 [0] | D | 2008-11-26 | Production | Outdated |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| 3 | 106A4 | 02 [1] | A | 2008-09-19 | Production | Outdated |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| 4 | 106A5 | 03 [0, 1] | 1B | 2015-06-27 | Production | Latest |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| 5 | 206C0 | 13 [0, 1, 4] | FFFF001C | 2009-12-14 | Pre-Production | Latest |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| 6 | 206C1 | 03 [0, 1] | 6 | 2009-12-22 | Production | Latest |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+
| 7 | 206C2 | 03 [0, 1] | 1D | 2015-08-04 | Production | Latest |
+---+-------+--------------+----------+------------+----------------+----------+

After reading your post 138, my guess is that starting with 1.12.0, MC Extractor is now comparing also with higher platform number to find newer dates. If it find one, then than this is the one it should be replaced with. In my case, i should remove those 2 with platform 01 and 02 from my bios and replace them with just one with platform 03:

| 000106A4 | 00000003 | 00000013 | 20150630 | 00003800 | 35DDB232 |

Did i understand correctly or am i missing something?

I see. It is just whether the revision is negative or not. Yeah, you're supposed to use signed comparison on microcode revisions, regardless of whether you display them as signed or unsigned numbers...
Thanks for clarifying this.

@ plutomaniac

How to correctly use option "-search"?
I can not find anything from the database.