Re: RFC: changes to microcode update driver.

Jamie Lokier
2003-10-08T19:43:31Z

Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 1. Remove ->read() method for /dev/cpu/microcode device node and do not
> hold a copy of applied microcode chunks in kernel memory. In the days when
> we had a regular devfs file with a non-zero size this had at least some
> potential use but now this feature is almost useless and removing it would
> allow a lot of code cleanup and simplification.

It would be nice to record the MD5 or SHA checksum of the loaded
microcode, so it's possible to check which one was loaded.

-- Jamie