linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0

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Message-ID: <20134.59800.835498.929876@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:53:44 +0100
From:	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@...citrix.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
CC:	Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@....com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode
	update in Xen dom0

Borislav Petkov writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0"):
> No, you don't want to keep the existing API and you know it. I've
> explained to you last week why.

So should I submit a patchset to remove the existing post-boot
microcode loading from Linux ?

Ian.
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