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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:43:01 +0100
From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Subject: x86/microcode update on systems without INITRD
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It looks like the ability to update x86/microcode without using an
initrd was removed this merge window.

Why?

I've used "echo -n 1 >| /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload" in my
init script for years without any issues.

-- 
Markus