From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753554AbaIYQ5t (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:57:49 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:45686 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752604AbaIYQ5q (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:57:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:57:40 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Andy Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability Message-ID: <20140925165740.GE28201@nazgul.tnic> References: <20140923200054.GB16467@pd.tnic> <20140924145658.GB31678@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140925085158.GF22317@nazgul.tnic> <20140925113643.GB10569@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140925121007.GA25334@nazgul.tnic> <20140925144025.GA14030@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140925145655.GA28201@nazgul.tnic> <20140925153006.GB10814@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20140925155044.GB28201@nazgul.tnic> <20140925164121.GC10814@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140925164121.GC10814@khazad-dum.debian.net> 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 Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:41:21PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > We still need to update x86_capability after a microcode update for the > above to really work in the "install microcode into initramfs" case. I think you mean for the kernels without early microcode loading... Because those which do early loading will have loaded the microcode much earlier than the x86_capability bits are detected. AFAICS, of course. It is late already :-\ -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. --