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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [v2 03/13] x86/microcode/intel: Fix a hang if early loading
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 08:07:32AM -0800, Ashok Raj wrote:
> - Take a microcode file from the distribution for a different fms that didn't
>   belong to the one you are testing.
> - You will have to fake the external header data and change it to the one
>   you want microcode match to work 
> - recompute all checksums and use that file instead of the original file.

This sounds like this cannot happen with officially released microcode -
only with something "hacked". If so, I'm not interested in such "fixes".

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    Boris.

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