Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752283Ab2FMGza (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:55:30 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:42005 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751351Ab2FMGz3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:55:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:55:25 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen , x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally v2 Message-ID: <20120613065525.GA12814@liondog.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Andi Kleen , Andi Kleen , x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, eranian@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl References: <1339536350-10463-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20120612213905.GE26817@liondog.tnic> <4FD7BE15.50604@linux.intel.com> <20120612221931.GA4376@liondog.tnic> <20120612225344.GE11413@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120612225344.GE11413@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 553 Lines: 15 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:53:44AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > I would consider that a BIOS bug. Ok, but does the user need to know this? If it is of only informative nature, he can find out each core's ucode version from /proc/cpuinfo so why do we need to issue this at boot? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- 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/