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

[Christoph Egger]

On 10/18/11 11:35, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:56:22AM -0400, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > I think this approach is good to get the microcode applied as
> > early as possible at boot time. But on servers you usually do not want
> > to reboot the machine unless you do a BIOS update which will apply
> > the new microcode anyway. So for applying the microcode update
> > at runtime I would like to keep the existing API.
>
> No, you don't want to keep the existing API and you know it. I've
> explained to you last week why.

By "existing API" I mean the xen hypercall. Sorry for the confusion.

Christoph


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