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Message-ID: <20120621095807.GA6437@aftab.osrc.amd.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:58:07 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, X86-ML <x86@...nel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:24:35AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This thing is not installed on my machine, nor would I have know
> to look for it. Nor does apt-cache search iucode_tool suggest any
> package.
>
> IOW fail.
FWIW, if we agree that we need a userspace tool for massaging Intel's
ucode, it should be in tools/ and it should be very easy to install even
on a distro which doesn't distribute it.
Emphasis on the initial "if", of course.
I'd very much prefer tool-less ucode application.
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