Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:55:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 |
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On 10/12/2011 04:40 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 10/12/2011 03:49 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> The stickiest part of all of this is where to leave the microcode so >> the kernel can get to it way early. We could use the linked list, but >> that would mean bootloader enabling; another idea was to stick it as a >> prefix to the initramfs identified by a signature. > > I think it would be easiest for the multiboot case if it were a separate > file, but I don't feel I'm really up on all the details.
For the multiboot case, yes of course.
Some bootloaders allow initramfs to be concatenated from multiple files; unfortunately I'm not sure if Grub ever grew that capability. Sigh.
-hpa
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