Bug 578854

Summary: more than 3 minutes to load microcode for Core 2 quad Q8300
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Joachim Reichelt <Joachim.Reichelt>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: lchiquitto
Version: Milestone 1   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Description Joachim Reichelt 2010-02-10 20:18:50 UTC 
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from dmesg:
[   23.576447] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   34.102996] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[   80.748174] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x10, revision=0xa07
[   80.748247] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-17-0a
[  140.749171] microcode: CPU2 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x10, revision=0xa07
[  140.749182] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-17-0a
[  200.750176] microcode: CPU3 sig=0x1067a, pf=0x10, revision=0xa07
[  200.750245] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-17-0a
[  260.751238] Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[  261.650989] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 5 devices found


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot
Actual Results:  
boot took more than 300 seconds, 

Expected Results:  
boot in ~40 sec.

from /var/log/boot.msg:
Feb 10 20:39:24.443475000> service microcode.ctl start
 Feb 10 20:43:24.635241000> service microcode.ctl done
Comment 1 Leonardo Chiquitto 2010-02-10 20:27:12 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this problem. Apparently it was already fixed on Factory (please see bug #574904).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 574904 ***