From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, X86-ML <x86@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:57:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120620095741.GC10012@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120620032658.GA31566@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:26:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > which makes me wonder whether we still need that OLD INTERFACE.
> > Henrique, any thoughts here?
>
> Well, there are distros out there that only have microcode.ctl, so you
> should give them _some_ advanced warning.
Ok, I think Fedora was one of them.
But yeah, the advanced warning is a good idea.
> As far as I am concerned you can simply deprecate /dev/cpu/microcode for,
> say, two kernel releases, and then delete it.
Cool, will do that.
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-20 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-19 16:03 [PATCH 0/2] x86, microcode: Reload ucode only per-system Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 16:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 18:25 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
[not found] ` <CANDHA0iu+QtQn=UxjpN34U=Ob4ABkZc4VWpPT5EidAgZm59JJQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-06-19 23:15 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-06-19 23:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 16:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 18:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
[not found] ` <CANDHA0jf2fLOtg1E6CbyNM=omn=kj=YoRJ3VTkNA0AhkS-MLtg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-06-19 23:10 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-06-19 23:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 3:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 9:57 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-06-20 23:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 9:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 10:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 10:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 10:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 11:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 18:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-23 1:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-23 2:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 16:26 ` Nix
2012-06-22 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-23 1:32 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 23:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21 10:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-21 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-22 2:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 3:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-22 3:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 6:41 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-06-20 23:59 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:50 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-21 0:02 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-21 8:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-21 9:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-21 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21 23:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-22 3:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 13:18 ` Borislav Petkov
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