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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system
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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