linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

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Message-ID: <20121221151418.GC15226@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:14:18 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:09:48PM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> > Why loading microcode this early is important? Why it is bad to load
> > it at the end of (initial) boot?
> >
> If not loading microcode early, we may hit some issues (e.g. PSE on
> Atom) and disable some CPU features. These issues can not be fixed by
> loading ucode during run time.

This question keeps popping up with this patchset, maybe you could
enlarge the first paragraph of Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
with a bit more detail and examples.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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