Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:35:34 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 |
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:56:22AM -0400, Christoph Egger wrote: > I think this approach is good to get the microcode applied as > early as possible at boot time. But on servers you usually do not want > to reboot the machine unless you do a BIOS update which will apply > the new microcode anyway. So for applying the microcode update > at runtime I would like to keep the existing API.
No, you don't want to keep the existing API and you know it. I've explained to you last week why.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
Operating Systems Research Center Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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