Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xendom0

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/12/2011 12:18 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> If there were a general shift to "this is how we're going to do
> microcode in the future", then Xen will happily go along for the ride.

It *is* how we want to do microcode in the future.  There is a prototype 
for the Intel hardware side here; we just haven't had time to finalize 
it partly because I got pulled onto the kernel.org situation.

> But for right now, this patch seems like the pragmatic solution.

No.

> I think the real question is where there's something objectionable about
> the patch itself?

"It does something that is slightly broken on real hardware and totally 
broken for a hypervisor and perpetuates it, while still needing enabling?"

	-hpa

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