Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:38:37 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 |
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 06:33:28PM -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 10/12/2011 03:29 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 10/12/2011 03:27 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> > >> The current scheme has worked pretty well so far; there doesn't seem to > >> be a huge concern about it. Have there been actual observed failures > >> with the current mechanism, or is the drive to make it earlier driven by > >> an aesthetic desire to make it "as it should be"? > >> > > > > Yes, there has. There is at least one case where we have to print an > > error message saying "update your BIOS" because our current microcode > > update is too late. > > Is that K8 errata 93 or something else?
AFAIR, that was an Atom erratum fix.
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