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From: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, cate@debian.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 05/11] [PATCH 05/11] x86: Moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c.
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:59:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D3942B.1050901@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080912063517.783b7f85@infradead.org>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-19 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 16:44 [patch 00/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support v2 Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 02/11] [PATCH 02/11] x86: Moved Intel microcode patch loader declarations to seperate header file Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 03/11] [PATCH 03/11] x86: Typedef removal Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 04/11] [PATCH 04/11] x86: Moved per CPU microcode structure declaration to header file Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 05/11] [PATCH 05/11] x86: Moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.c Peter Oruba
2008-09-07 19:08   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-12 11:54     ` Peter Oruba
2008-09-12 13:35       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-12 13:53         ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-19 11:59         ` Peter Oruba [this message]
2008-09-19 12:37           ` Dmitry Adamushko
2008-09-19 12:58             ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-19 13:03               ` Peter Oruba
2008-09-19 13:52                 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-20  6:11                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-19 14:06                 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2008-09-19 14:29                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-20  6:07                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-19 13:07           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 06/11] [PATCH 06/11] x86: Code split to two parts Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 07/11] [PATCH 07/11] x86: Structure declaration renaming Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 08/11] [PATCH 08/11] x86: Add AMD specific declarations Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 09/11] [PATCH 09/11] x86: First step of refactoring, introducing microcode_ops Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 10/11] [PATCH 10/11] x86: Major refactoring Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 19:36   ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-28 19:50     ` Tigran Aivazian
2008-07-28 16:44 ` [patch 11/11] [PATCH 11/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support Peter Oruba
2008-07-28 18:01 ` [patch 00/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support v2 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29  8:10   ` [PATCH] x86, microcode support: fix build error Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29  8:10   ` [patch 00/11] x86: AMD microcode patch loading support v2 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29  8:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-29  8:12   ` Ingo Molnar

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