Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:49:37 +0200 | From | Christoph Egger <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 |
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On 10/18/11 11:35, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:56:22AM -0400, Christoph Egger wrote: >> I think this approach is good to get the microcode applied as >> early as possible at boot time. But on servers you usually do not want >> to reboot the machine unless you do a BIOS update which will apply >> the new microcode anyway. So for applying the microcode update >> at runtime I would like to keep the existing API. > > No, you don't want to keep the existing API and you know it. I've > explained to you last week why. >
By "existing API" I mean the xen hypercall. Sorry for the confusion.
Christoph
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