Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:22:41 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 |
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On 10/12/2011 12:18 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > If there were a general shift to "this is how we're going to do > microcode in the future", then Xen will happily go along for the ride.
It *is* how we want to do microcode in the future. There is a prototype for the Intel hardware side here; we just haven't had time to finalize it partly because I got pulled onto the kernel.org situation.
> But for right now, this patch seems like the pragmatic solution.
No.
> I think the real question is where there's something objectionable about > the patch itself?
"It does something that is slightly broken on real hardware and totally broken for a hypervisor and perpetuates it, while still needing enabling?"
-hpa
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