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SubjectRe: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:14:50 -0400
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:29:53 +0200
> > Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 08:00:15AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >> > We're also killing microcode update support outside of the initramfs in
> >> > Debian. It has become obvious that anything other than the early initramfs
> >> > method of microcode updates should be considered a developer thing.
> >>
> >> That's simply not true: long-running systems which you can't reboot for
> >> whatever reason will need the late microcode update.
> >>
> >
> > Assuming we can identify all the affected models and steppings, maybe
> > something like this would work:
> >
> > 1) Refuse to finish booting if a microcode update that disables TSX
> > isn't applied before userspace starts running on those CPUs.
>
> How would you accomplish that when applying a microcode update
> requires userspace? Or did you mean "before we transition out of the
> initramfs"?
>

I guess I meant requiring the update be done with the early microcode
method.


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