Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965015AbWEYFVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 01:21:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965046AbWEYFVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 01:21:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33943 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965015AbWEYFVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 01:21:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:12:34 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Greg KH Cc: Shaohua Li , lkml , Tigran Aivazian , Rajesh Shah , "Van De Ven, Adriaan" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] microcode update driver rewrite Message-ID: <20060525041234.GA22024@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Greg KH , Shaohua Li , lkml , Tigran Aivazian , Rajesh Shah , "Van De Ven, Adriaan" , Andrew Morton References: <1148529049.32046.103.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20060525040557.GA30175@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060525040557.GA30175@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 690 Lines: 18 On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:05:57PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Don't use request_firmware, use request_firmware_nowait() instead. That > way you never stall. You only want to update the firmware when > userspace tells you to, not for every boot like I think this will do. But the CPU microcode *does* need reloading on each boot, as it's stored in volatile memory that goes away on reboot. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/