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

Borislav Petkov
2011-10-13T07:01:04Z

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:03:50PM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Yes, makes sense. Keep it as simple as possible.

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