Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759550Ab2FUX2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:28:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53966 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753611Ab2FUX2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:28:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE3AE18.5050903@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:28:24 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov CC: Peter Zijlstra , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , "Yu, Fenghua" , X86-ML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Andreas Herrmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system 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> <1340182778.21745.75.camel@twins> <20120620230856.GA4223@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1340267075.21745.155.camel@twins> <20120621095807.GA6437@aftab.osrc.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20120621095807.GA6437@aftab.osrc.amd.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 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: 961 Lines: 27 On 06/21/2012 02:58 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:24:35AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> This thing is not installed on my machine, nor would I have know >> to look for it. Nor does apt-cache search iucode_tool suggest any >> package. >> >> IOW fail. > > FWIW, if we agree that we need a userspace tool for massaging Intel's > ucode, it should be in tools/ and it should be very easy to install even > on a distro which doesn't distribute it. > > Emphasis on the initial "if", of course. > > I'd very much prefer tool-less ucode application. > We're working on fixing that, however, we want to close on the early ucode stuff and have it work first before we make any changes. -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/