Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761005Ab2FVDTb (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:19:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55364 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757458Ab2FVDTa (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:19:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE3E428.8080207@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:19:04 -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: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Peter Zijlstra , "Yu, Fenghua" , X86-ML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Andreas Herrmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system References: <1340121811-4477-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C7122007737623@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <20120619232857.GH5996@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <4FE26155.8030207@zytor.com> <20120621100721.GB6437@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <4FE3ADDF.2060908@zytor.com> <20120622025631.GD29505@aftab.osrc.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20120622025631.GD29505@aftab.osrc.amd.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 23 On 06/21/2012 07:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> That is orthogonal. Anyway, my only concern about the request_firmware >> interface is that the timing will be inherently wrong. > > Timing? Please elaborate. > The request_firmware will happen as soon as the driver is loaded; with the early microcode blob scheme the driver will need to be built in and so the request_firmware will happen, redundantly, immediately... -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/