Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/20/2012 04:08 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 01:28 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>> which makes me wonder whether we still need that OLD INTERFACE.
>>> Henrique, any thoughts here? 
>>
>> Yes I need it, I've no f'ing clue where to put the ucode image so that
>> the whole firmware mess can find it :-)
> 
> iucode_tool -K <name of intel microcode .dat/.bin file(s)> will do it
> for you :p
> 

I'm wondering about the new format... it seems to potentially make it
harder to do the proper retaining of compatible CPU microcodes.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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