Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early updateucode on Intel's CPU

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 03:50:14PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> We are trying to discuss mitigation strategies with you, but you
> haven't really given us any useful information, e.g. what happens near
> the various boundaries of the hole, what could trigger prefeching into
> the range, and what it would take to fix the BIOSes.

Another thing we could do (I admit it is ugly) is to add a quirk to the
#MC handler and detect that specific condition by looking at the address
reported in MCi_ADDR and exit early by not panicking the system.

Again, this is ugly but a possibility, still.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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