Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:39:39 -0800 | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Yu, Fenghua <fenghua.yu@intel.com> wrote: >> From: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com [mailto:yhlu.kernel@gmail.com] On Behalf Of >> Yinghai Lu >> >> may need to copy the ucode.bin to BRK at first. that will make code >> much simple, and later does not need to >> copy them back in free_bootmem_initrd. >> >> aka, this patchset is not ready for 3.8 even. >> > > I will relocate saved microcode blob (mc_saved_in_initrd) after initrd is > relocated in updated patches. Thus, mc_saved_in_initrd always point to > right initrd during boot time.
No, you should not copy that several times.
just pre-allocate some kbytes in BRK, and copy to there one time.
Yinghai
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