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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>,
	Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>,
	"Van De Ven, Adriaan" <adriaan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] microcode update driver rewrite
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:12:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060525041234.GA22024@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060525040557.GA30175@kroah.com>

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:05:57PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

 > Don't use request_firmware, use request_firmware_nowait() instead.  That
 > way you never stall.  You only want to update the firmware when
 > userspace tells you to, not for every boot like I think this will do.

But the CPU microcode *does* need reloading on each boot, as it's stored
in volatile memory that goes away on reboot.

		Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-25  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-25  3:50 [PATCH 2/2] microcode update driver rewrite Shaohua Li
2006-05-25  4:05 ` Greg KH
2006-05-25  4:12   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-05-25 15:02     ` Greg KH
2006-05-26  5:35       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-25  4:16   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-25  5:16   ` Shaohua Li

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