Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/microcode: Deprecate MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Apr 05 2019 - 17:53:46 EST


On Fri, 5 Apr 2019, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>
> This is the ancient loading interface which requires special tools to be
> used. The bigger problem with it is that it is as inadequate for proper
> loading of microcode as the late microcode loading interface is because
> it happens just as late.
>
> iucode_tool's manpage already warns people that it is deprecated.
>
> Deprecate it and turn it off by default along with a big warning in the
> Kconfig help. It will go away sometime in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>