From: "Sven Köhler" <sven.koehler@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:49:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je07nb$m1l$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111013070050.GA501@aftab>
Am 13.10.2011 09:00, schrieb Borislav Petkov:
> 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.
For the majority of the past 10 years, the microcode has been shipped as
one big file (at least for intel).
So have you looked at the file format of the bundles that already exist?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 18:17 [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-26 18:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen/acpi: Domain0 acpi parser related platform hypercall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-26 18:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen: add dom0_op hypercall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-26 18:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen: add CPU microcode update driver Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 0:40 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 10:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 15:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 18:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 19:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 19:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 20:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-12 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 21:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 23:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-13 0:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-13 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-13 7:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-01-04 0:49 ` Sven Köhler [this message]
2011-10-13 7:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-13 9:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-13 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-17 17:08 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-17 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-18 1:11 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-10-18 8:56 ` Christoph Egger
2011-10-18 9:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-18 9:49 ` Christoph Egger
[not found] ` <m2n.s.1RGYF2-136675@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
2011-10-25 16:53 ` Ian Jackson
2011-10-12 22:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 22:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 22:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 22:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 22:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 22:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <m2n.s.1RE5NW-151309@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
2011-10-17 13:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Jackson
2011-11-03 15:06 ` Ben Guthro
2011-11-03 16:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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