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18.03/microcode #46018

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18.03/microcode #46018

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@andir andir commented Sep 3, 2018

Motivation for this change

Backport from #45101.

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

/cc @Moredread @peterhoeg


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No attempt on aarch64-linux (full log)

The following builds were skipped because they don't evaluate on aarch64-linux: microcodeIntel

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a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
  { nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true; }
in configuration.nix to override this.

b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
  { allowBroken = true; }
to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.


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Success on x86_64-linux (full log)

Attempted: microcodeIntel

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no Makefile, doing nothing
installing
iucode_tool: Writing selected microcodes to: kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin
3357 blocks
post-installation fixup
shrinking RPATHs of ELF executables and libraries in /nix/store/aki6p88wixf6w601siqjbx5f3gibx69w-microcode-intel-20180807
strip is /nix/store/k8b9hqv58dd1z0j4ikak24ykndcm91s6-binutils-2.28.1/bin/strip
patching script interpreter paths in /nix/store/aki6p88wixf6w601siqjbx5f3gibx69w-microcode-intel-20180807
checking for references to /build in /nix/store/aki6p88wixf6w601siqjbx5f3gibx69w-microcode-intel-20180807...
/nix/store/aki6p88wixf6w601siqjbx5f3gibx69w-microcode-intel-20180807

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andir commented Sep 3, 2018

This update bumps the date of the microcode for my i7-6700HQ from 2017-11-16 to 2018-04-17 so it seems Intel finally provided updates for this chip..

@xeji xeji merged commit ba52ef1 into NixOS:release-18.03 Sep 3, 2018
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No attempt on x86_64-darwin (full log)

The following builds were skipped because they don't evaluate on x86_64-darwin: microcodeIntel

Partial log (click to expand)


a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
  { nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true; }
in configuration.nix to override this.

b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
  { allowBroken = true; }
to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.


@andir andir deleted the 18.03/microcode branch September 3, 2018 23:47
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There is also 34e60f3

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xeji commented Sep 4, 2018

Thanks! picked in 261d714

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