linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed broken microcode early loading on 32 bit platforms because it always jumps past cpuid in sync_core() as data structure boot_cpu_data are not populated so early in boot. This is for 4.4. Should be done for 4.9 too

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Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:52:07 +0300
From:   Evalds Iodzevics <evalds.iodzevics@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed broken microcode early loading on 32 bit
 platforms because it always jumps past cpuid in sync_core() as data structure
 boot_cpu_data are not populated so early in boot. This is for 4.4. Should be
 done for 4.9 too

Yeah, basically its a fix for early microcode load on x86 for 4.4 longterm
Just tried to say same problem exists on 4.9 too

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:54 PM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 07:29:43PM +0300, Evalds Iodzevics wrote:
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Your subject line is really confused :(
>