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

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Date:	Fri, 5 Sep 2014 10:52:22 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: early microcode: how to disable at runtime?

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 06:37:05PM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> In case this comment may cause confusion, I need to confirm that:
> 
> The parameter "dis_ucode_ldr" only turns off early microcode loading from the initrd.
> It does not trun off loading microcode later during run time.

Are you asking or are you saying?

Because it should disable loading of the microcode machinery later too -
see microcode_init().

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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