linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:26:08 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 12:22 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> But I haven't tested what happens when it is built in and I use the
> reload interface, hehe something to play with today. 

I couldn't easily find where to place the damn ucode image anyway, so I
built in the old-style /dev interface and used the microcode.ctl package
to load it.

Fwiw, that works just fine when its built-in.


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