Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:43:17 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: RFC: changes to microcode update driver. |
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Tigran Aivazian wrote: > 1. Remove ->read() method for /dev/cpu/microcode device node and do not > hold a copy of applied microcode chunks in kernel memory. In the days when > we had a regular devfs file with a non-zero size this had at least some > potential use but now this feature is almost useless and removing it would > allow a lot of code cleanup and simplification.
It would be nice to record the MD5 or SHA checksum of the loaded microcode, so it's possible to check which one was loaded.
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