Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:52:46 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AMD microcode loading broken on 32 bit
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:43:57PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> It fixes the case when there is no microcode in initrd but when
> microcode is corrupted (as was the case when we were pointing to Intel
> binary) we still die. Neither container nor ucode_cpio.data is NULL in
> this case.

How is that possible? Did you generate a path in the cpio by the name of

"kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin"

but with Intel microcode in it?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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