Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:22:50 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system |
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:17:44AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 07:11 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > $ rmmod microcode; modprobe microcode > > > > but then the same guys come :-) and say they don't want to reload > > modules for security reasons. > > Nah, they built their kernel without modules, much more secure!
Not secure enough - they don't get microcode then (ucode loader uses request_firmware()) and has to be module for the initial load, at least.
But I haven't tested what happens when it is built in and I use the reload interface, hehe something to play with today.
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