From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: early microcode: how to disable at runtime?
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:42:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140904154246.GA10884@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140903124302.GA18507@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:43:02AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Half the things you'd usually do when writing kernel code cannot be done
> that early, that's how. It is not that the code is bad or especially
> fragile (at least not the core or the AMD driver. The Intel driver is
> convoluted).
Right, it could use some cleaning up.
> You have fixed several such bugs recently, commit ids:
> 75a1ba5b2c529db60ca49626bcaf0bddf4548438,
> 84516098b58e05821780dc0b89abcee434b4dca5,
> 5335ba5cf475369f88db8e6835764efdcad8ab96.
Those were unfortunate because the original patches didn't get tested
enough and got applied. This is not happening again on my watch.
> Yes. It is a stop gap solution, I never claimed it to be anything
> else.
>
> What I did claim is that it is going to be a far more user-friendly
> stop gap than the "boot from rescue media" option.
Ok, we have it now and we can use it if needed. All is good.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-04 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-09 23:19 BUG: early intel microcode update violating alignment rules Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-08-11 10:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-08-11 13:16 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-08-11 14:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-08-11 14:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-11 18:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2014-08-11 19:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-08-14 13:12 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-08-11 14:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-11 18:18 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-08-11 18:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-31 19:45 ` early microcode: how to disable at runtime? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-08-31 19:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-31 20:11 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-01 5:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-01 10:19 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-01 16:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-01 17:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-01 18:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-01 19:59 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-02 6:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-02 13:16 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-03 6:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-03 12:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-04 15:42 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-09-04 17:45 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-05 8:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-05 14:23 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-04 18:37 ` Yu, Fenghua
2014-09-05 8:52 ` Borislav Petkov
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