linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally v2

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:53:44 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	hpa@...or.com, eranian@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally v2

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:19:31AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:09:25PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > >Ok, is it only me or is this boot_min_microcode superfluous?
> > >IOW, you can only use boot_cpu_data.microcode instead and drop
> > >boot_min_microcode.
> > 
> > boot_cpu_data.microcode contains a copy of the original microcode,
> > so we couldn't detect the boot cpu case. In theory could hard code
> > CPU #0 is boot cpu or so,
> > but I prefer to track it with the separate variable.
> 
> Ok, this begs the next question then: why do we need to say that some AP
> has a lower ucode version than the BSP?

I would consider that a BIOS bug.

-Andi
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