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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 19 2012 - 19:15:33 EST


On 12/19/2012 04:10 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 04:02:25PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
The goal should be to have this into -tip and -next by the middle of
January in order to make the 3.9 merge window, I think.

...and an easy back-out strategy in case there are too many issues while
testing. Maybe don't merge it into tip/master so that it can be removed
easily, or something to that effect.


We keep everything in topic branches; tip:master is a synthetic branch which can be regenerated as needed.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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