Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:57:16 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU |
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:07:38PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > BTW, do we really need to update microcode so early?
Yes we do. Normally ucode gets applied by the BIOS - this early approach is for those cases where OEMs don't release new BIOS anymore but we still need to apply a ucode patch as early as possible.
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