linux-kernel - Re: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86

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Message-ID: <20140918200659.GA5331@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:06:59 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@...il.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> We should, but this is also part of why we want the early ucode capability.

Well, yes.  But that won't help the several stable and LTS distros with
kernels without early ucode update support.

-- 
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  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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