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

H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-13T00:04:28Z

On 10/12/2011 05:00 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Presumably we'd want some way to make all possible microcode files
> available to the hypervisor/kernel so that there's no need to construct
> the bootloader config for a specific CPU vendor (or worse, CPU model).
> So that would need either some way of specifying multiple files, or a
> wrapper which can contain multiple files?
>

I have been thinking a "bundle" format with a per-vendor header followed
by the microcode in the appropriate format for each vendor.

-hpa