Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:01:01 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system |
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:00:59PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Meh. I uploaded the first public version of the thing a whole two weeks > ago! It should have been all over the Internet by now ;-) > > It is in Debian Wheezy (soon-to-be-stable) as of yesterday, I think. It > will eventually end up in Ubuntu. And if you guys think it is worthwhile to > maintain it upstream either in git.k.o, or as part of tools/, I have nothing > against it. > > I posted the URL earlier, I think, but here it is: > http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/i/iucode-tool/iucode-tool_0.8.orig.tar.bz2 > > But it really exists to help distros do Intel microcode management and > release install-and-forget packages for end users. End-users should get to > either ignore its existence entirely and get automated updates of microcode > as distro binary packages, or run an "update-intel-microcode" script (not > written yet, but there is one on Debian and Ubuntu's microcode.ctl package) > that downloads the blob from Intel, and does whatever is needed to install > it to /lib/firmware and apply it to the running system (and kernel image, > initramfs, whatever).
Yeah, this is all very helpful but let's see whether we are even going to need a tool, at all. If we are tool-less, we don't depend on any userspace stuff and ucode application just works like ftrace - no need for a specific tool but the shell and debugfs (sysfs in our case).
Thanks.
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