From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:51:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06e07006-342a-4041-8592-37dd16866be6@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx40h4mz.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
He said *outside* of the early update mechanism.
On September 21, 2014 5:37:24 PM PDT, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> writes:
>
>
>> And yes, this means we will kill support for microcode updates
>> outside of the initramfs/early-initramfs, at least in Debian,
>> and likely in Ubuntu.
>
>You got it totally backwards. initramfs updating should handle this
>microcode update just fine, as it happens before the kernel
>scans the cpuids. Just don't update it later.
>
>Nothing else is needed.
>
>-Andi
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-22 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-18 13:52 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-18 19:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 19:53 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-18 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-18 20:06 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 0:13 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 0:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19 1:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 8:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 11:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 11:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 12:54 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-19 13:14 ` Josh Boyer
2014-09-19 13:37 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-19 15:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 16:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 16:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 16:42 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-23 20:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-24 14:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-24 15:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-24 17:45 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-24 17:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-24 18:59 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-24 19:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-25 8:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 8:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 11:36 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 12:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 14:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 14:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 15:30 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 15:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 16:41 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 16:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 17:09 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 13:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 14:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 17:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 22:35 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-29 11:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 9:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 16:11 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-22 0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2014-09-22 0:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-09-22 0:58 ` Andi Kleen
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