From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753851Ab2LKO5U (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:57:20 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:56543 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752883Ab2LKO5T (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:57:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:57:16 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Yinghai Lu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Yu, Fenghua" , "mingo@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "hpa@linux.intel.com" , "linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU Message-ID: <20121211145716.GB8873@liondog.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Yinghai Lu , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Yu, Fenghua" , "mingo@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "hpa@linux.intel.com" , "linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" References: <1354240068-9821-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C71220470F154E@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <50C6AB63.9070008@zytor.com> <50C6D3DF.3030209@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:07:38PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > BTW, do we really need to update microcode so early? Yes we do. Normally ucode gets applied by the BIOS - this early approach is for those cases where OEMs don't release new BIOS anymore but we still need to apply a ucode patch as early as possible. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --