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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Add an option to reload microcode even if revision is unchanged
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>
CC:     Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Jon Grimm <Jon.Grimm@amd.com>, kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com,
        konrad.wilk@oracle.com, patrick.colp@oracle.com,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
        x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From:   Boris Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On September 5, 2019 12:06:54 AM GMT+02:00, Boris Ostrovsky <boris=2Eostrov=
sky@oracle=2Ecom> wrote:
>Why do we need to taint kernel here? We are not making any changes=2E

Because this is not a normal operation we want users to do=2E This is only=
 for testing microcode quicker=2E

>This won't allow people to load from new microcode blob which I thought
>was one of the objectives behind this new feature=2E

You load a new blob the usual way: echo 1 > =2E=2E=2E

This is the "unusual" way where you reload an already loaded revision only=
=2E

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Sent from a small device: formatting sux and brevity is inevitable=2E