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