Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support formicrocode update in Xen dom0

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > <scratches his head>
> > You are still using the microcode API (the existing one) to
> > program the CPUs right? It is just that you are fetching the images
> > much much earlier than it currently is done?
> > 
> 
> No, the goal is to ditch the existing API and load the CPUs very early
> in the start path.

And how do we apply new microcode at runtime?  A new API?

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  Henrique Holschuh
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