From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:11:56 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111018011156.GA20291@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9C6886.20600@zytor.com>
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > <scratches his head>
> > You are still using the microcode API (the existing one) to
> > program the CPUs right? It is just that you are fetching the images
> > much much earlier than it currently is done?
> >
>
> No, the goal is to ditch the existing API and load the CPUs very early
> in the start path.
And how do we apply new microcode at runtime? A new API?
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-18 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 18:17 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-26 18:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen/acpi: Domain0 acpi parser related platform hypercall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-26 18:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen: add dom0_op hypercall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-26 18:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen: add CPU microcode update driver Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 0:40 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 10:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 15:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 18:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 19:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 19:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 20:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-12 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 21:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 23:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-13 0:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-13 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-13 7:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-01-04 0:49 ` Sven Köhler
2011-10-13 7:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-13 9:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-13 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-17 17:08 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-17 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-18 1:11 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2011-10-18 8:56 ` Christoph Egger
2011-10-18 9:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-18 9:49 ` Christoph Egger
[not found] ` <m2n.s.1RGYF2-136675@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
2011-10-25 16:53 ` Ian Jackson
2011-10-12 22:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 22:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 22:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 22:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-10-12 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-12 22:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-10-12 22:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <m2n.s.1RE5NW-151309@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
2011-10-17 13:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Jackson
[not found] ` <CAOvdn6VfZ524ku2DBMfmTV+dHGXrSV8Ls_iwHdm=ESXO9kUjcg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-03 16:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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