Re: [patch 05/11] [PATCH 05/11] x86: Moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c.

Peter Oruba
2008-09-19T12:00:20Z

Some additonal words regarding the current user space issues:

IMHO the most convenient way to update microcode is through the firmware loading
interface instead of microcode_ctl. This reduces user-space responsibilities to
loading the correct module at boot time and to place the microcode patch file at
the right location via package installation. The problems mentioned in this
thread would then probably disappear as well. What do you guys think?

Thanks,
Peter

Arjan van de Ven schrieb:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:54:20 +0200
> Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com> wrote:
>
>> Arjan,
>>
>> could you please provide some more information about that issue?
>
> well.. the fedora boot script just plain fails.
> I suspect it manually loads microcode.ko or something if CPUID says
> intel; and this now stops working...
>
>

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