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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/12/2011 05:00 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Presumably we'd want some way to make all possible microcode files
> available to the hypervisor/kernel so that there's no need to construct
> the bootloader config for a specific CPU vendor (or worse, CPU model).
> So that would need either some way of specifying multiple files, or a
> wrapper which can contain multiple files?

I have been thinking a "bundle" format with a per-vendor header followed 
by the microcode in the appropriate format for each vendor.

	-hpa


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