From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754516AbaIAQfl (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:35:41 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55020 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754061AbaIAQfk (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:35:40 -0400 Message-ID: <5404A035.3070707@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:35:01 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh CC: Fenghua Yu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: early microcode: how to disable at runtime? References: <20140809231911.GA4843@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140831194548.GA12628@khazad-dum.debian.net> <54037C07.8060703@zytor.com> <20140831201126.GB12628@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140901051302.GA28402@nazgul.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20140901051302.GA28402@nazgul.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/31/2014 10:13 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 05:11:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> Probably more like something more like arch/x86/boot/cmdline.c. Maybe >>> we could even make it sharable. >> >> Looks like that would work, yes. > > Guys, guys, please relax and check the code first: "dis_ucode_ldr". > Yeah. It is an absolutely horrific option name (something like "noearlyucode" would have been so much nicer; we generally use the no- prefix and no underscores) but I should have objected to that one much sooner. -hpa