Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:33:14 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 |
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On 02/03/2011 10:25 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> We already have a mechanism for passing arbitrary blobs -- the linked >> list -- so we don't have to add a new field at all. > > So, after staring at grub legacy sources a bit, we could load the > microcode image using the grub module's mechanism: > > kernel /... > module /boot/microcode.gz type=SETUP_MICROCODE # this is looked at by parse_setup_data() > > and let grub write the pointer into setup_data passed through the kernel > header. > > This would mean that we need to add support to a bunch of boot loaders > used currently, no? Or is there an even better way? >
We would need to add boot loader support, yes.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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