Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:14:18 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode |
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:09:48PM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote: > > Why loading microcode this early is important? Why it is bad to load > > it at the end of (initial) boot? > > > If not loading microcode early, we may hit some issues (e.g. PSE on > Atom) and disable some CPU features. These issues can not be fixed by > loading ucode during run time.
This question keeps popping up with this patchset, maybe you could enlarge the first paragraph of Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt with a bit more detail and examples.
Thanks.
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