From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754601AbaHKTPc (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:15:32 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:58691 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752325AbaHKTPb (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:15:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:15:19 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , H Peter Anvin , Fenghua Yu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUG: early intel microcode update violating alignment rules Message-ID: <20140811191519.GF21607@pd.tnic> References: <20140809231911.GA4843@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140811102245.GC4236@nazgul.tnic> <20140811131613.GA4541@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140811140057.GA21693@pd.tnic> <53E910F7.1040806@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53E910F7.1040806@tmr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:52:39PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Because if the requirement is enforced in some future revision, and > updates then fail in some insane way, the vendor is justified in > claiming "I told you so." ... provided that requirement is not some old relic which is not needed anymore. I was questioning it, considering the fact that CPUs don't enforce it (if they did, we'd be seeing explosions left and right). Anyway, hpa is checking the whole deal internally as we speak. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --