Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:26:52 -0700 |
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Not quite.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 06/20/2012 04:09 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> > Yeah, both should be workable. Let's see what Intel wants to do: >hpa, >> > Fenghua? >> >> What we want to do is to have a unified binary blob (which would be >> about half that size) but the format may be affected by Fenghua's >> ongoing work so we're not quite ready to rev the format now just to >do >> it again. > >Any reason why you can't just take a single file with one binary >microcode >appended back-to-back after the other (i.e. exactly what >/dev/cpu/microcode >accepts)? > >You'd only be able to release that memory after all cores were brought >online [and any microcode that did get used to update a core was copied >somewhere else for future use], but that's hardly a big problem. > >-- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh
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