Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:34:17 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system |
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On 06/20/2012 04:32 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Which means that > > static enum ucode_state request_microcode_fw(int cpu, struct device *device) > { > char name[30]; > > ... > > sprintf(name, "intel-ucode/%02x-%02x-%02x", > c->x86, c->x86_model, c->x86_mask); > > needs to be changed to the name of the microcode blob you guys use for > distributing and we can drop the OLD INTERFACE and there'll be no need > for userspace tools doing anything with the ucode patches. >
Except you still need to re-poke it when you have a new microcode blob... so what was gained by all this churn?
-hpa
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