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SubjectRe: BUG: early intel microcode update violating alignment rules
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I don't think so.  I wouldn't count on that in the long run.

I'm having some discussions about this integrally at the moment.

On August 11, 2014 11:18:32 AM PDT, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 11, 2014, at 11:51, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> We could put a buffer in the initdata region (we really could use an
>> initbss region!) or in the brk.
>
>That sounds much better than the hideous crap I came up with. The
>buffer would need to be at least 64KiB in size to be on the safe side.
>The largest public microcode update ATM is 23KiB.
>
>I am not sure if we might need more than 64KiB: the Intel SDM mentions
>that in real mode the update data must not cross a segment boundary,
>and
>also must not exceed a segment limit. I am a bit rusty on real mode,
>but doesn't that mean, in practice, that microcode update data size is
>limited in size to 64KiB?

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