From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757186AbaIRUHP (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:07:15 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:36313 "EHLO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756992AbaIRUHN (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:07:13 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Iy7KTGn32rVk9RzGpMarmw76mL6vLLGvp9bAlRZkAOGI 1411070831 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:06:59 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Andy Lutomirski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability Message-ID: <20140918200659.GA5331@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20140918135202.GA26038@khazad-dum.debian.net> <541B2F33.8000002@amacapital.net> <20140918145328.0253f009@as> <9c84cde6-3d70-4337-8738-0283d06d8cf0@email.android.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9c84cde6-3d70-4337-8738-0283d06d8cf0@email.android.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint1: 4096R/39CB4807 C467 A717 507B BAFE D3C1 6092 0BD9 E811 39CB 4807 X-GPG-Fingerprint2: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > We should, but this is also part of why we want the early ucode capability. Well, yes. But that won't help the several stable and LTS distros with kernels without early ucode update support. -- "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