Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Add an option to reload microcode even if revision is unchanged

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:27:06PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> Several customers have asked this to check the safety of late loads.
> They want to validate in production setup prior to rolling late-load
> to all production systems.

First of all, they should use *early* loading. I don't know how many
times I need to say that, maybe I should print it on T-shirts.

And then they can reboot. If you're thinking of the
"we-can't-reboot-because-we're-cloud" argument don't even bother to
bring it - I've had it more than enough and no, just because cloud
people don't want to reboot, it doesn't mean we will support some insane
use case.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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