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
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent 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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