linux-kernel - Re: early microcode: how to disable at runtime?

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Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:35:01 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
CC:	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: early microcode: how to disable at runtime?

On 08/31/2014 10:13 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 05:11:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>> Probably more like something more like arch/x86/boot/cmdline.c.  Maybe
>>> we could even make it sharable.
>>
>> Looks like that would work, yes.
> 
> Guys, guys, please relax and check the code first: "dis_ucode_ldr".
> 

Yeah.  It is an absolutely horrific option name (something like
"noearlyucode" would have been so much nicer; we generally use the no-
prefix and no underscores) but I should have objected to that one much
sooner.

	-hpa

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