linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/x86/intel: Add a script to update the minimum ucode revisions

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Message-ID: <20250822192751.GJaKjEtw5Rf4f0K3DE@fat_crate.local>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:27:51 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
	Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/x86/intel: Add a script to update the minimum
 ucode revisions

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 12:16:59PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Ahh, gotcha. Should we slap something like this in the script?
> 
> 	This script is intended to be run in response to releases of the
> 	official Intel microcode github repository[link]. Typically,
> 	someone at Intel would see a new release, run this script,
> 	refresh the intel-ucode-defs.h file and send a patch upstream to
> 	update the mainline and stable versions.

Yap, thanks!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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