Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758432Ab2FTXK7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:10:59 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:45657 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754824Ab2FTXK4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:10:56 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Q0l+ZSpsLaO4Ve9Y1KoPmdIhJbqKLBw8b4yFMAgfaWMK 1340233856 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:10:53 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Borislav Petkov Cc: "Yu, Fenghua" , X86-ML , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Andreas Herrmann , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system Message-ID: <20120620231053.GB4223@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <1340121811-4477-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> <1340121811-4477-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C7122007737623@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <20120619232857.GH5996@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <20120620032658.GA31566@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20120620095741.GC10012@aftab.osrc.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120620095741.GC10012@aftab.osrc.amd.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 25 On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:26:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > which makes me wonder whether we still need that OLD INTERFACE. > > > Henrique, any thoughts here? > > > > Well, there are distros out there that only have microcode.ctl, so you > > should give them _some_ advanced warning. > > Ok, I think Fedora was one of them. No, Fedora has a .c quick hack that can split Intel .dat files into /lib/firmware/intel-ucode bin files. Maybe it is not in their stable branch yet. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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/