Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:00:50 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 |
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:03:50PM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/12/2011 05:00 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > > Presumably we'd want some way to make all possible microcode files > > available to the hypervisor/kernel so that there's no need to construct > > the bootloader config for a specific CPU vendor (or worse, CPU model). > > So that would need either some way of specifying multiple files, or a > > wrapper which can contain multiple files? > > > > I have been thinking a "bundle" format with a per-vendor header followed > by the microcode in the appropriate format for each vendor.
Yes, makes sense. Keep it as simple as possible.
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