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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:00:20 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:17:58PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> In this case, the other patch that I mentioned in my previous mail
> would be required (or an equivalent), because the optimization
> patch which is now in mainline, would apply the same old microcode
> image on this new CPU too, blindly.

Not blindly, the microcode is still verified.

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