Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0

Borislav Petkov
2011-10-13T09:57:23Z

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:33:52AM -0400, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Bottomline is, extending initrd handling to deal with multiple initrd
> images might turn out to be easier to do than the linked list deal.

Alternatively and IMHO, we could avoid the bootloader enabling by
making the ucode part of the initramfs and pull up some of the
prepare_namespace() work in kernel_init() before smp_init() so that we
can have it ready for when bootstrapping the cores.

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