Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756033Ab1BCA7Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:59:25 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40617 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755994Ab1BCA7Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:59:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4D49FDA2.9020900@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:58:10 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Xen Devel , Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 References: <20110130113356.GA27967@liondog.tnic> <4D461FB9.5050807@goop.org> <20110131070241.GA22071@liondog.tnic> <4D46FC9F.6090309@goop.org> <20110131234131.GA16095@liondog.tnic> <4D475099.1080004@goop.org> <4D475DB5.1020300@zytor.com> <4D488EB1.9020803@goop.org> <4D49B5F6.5010606@zytor.com> <4D49B903.2080602@goop.org> <20110203005517.GA30220@khazad-dum.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <20110203005517.GA30220@khazad-dum.debian.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 20 On 02/02/2011 04:55 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > But I'd really, really appreciate if someone from Intel [that actually cares > for operating system support of microcode updates] could vouch that we're > allowed to do that (convert their text packs to binary packs, merge > microcodes from older packs with the new to have a single pack with all > microcodes in their most up-to-date revision, and distribute the resulting > binary packs) before I make the tool public. > I'm trying to figure this stuff out already. The actual conversion isn't a problem, obviously. -hpa -- 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/