Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:12:29 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Add an option to reload microcode even if revision is unchanged | From | Boris Petkov <> |
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On September 5, 2019 12:06:54 AM GMT+02:00, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote: >Why do we need to taint kernel here? We are not making any changes.
Because this is not a normal operation we want users to do. This is only for testing microcode quicker.
>This won't allow people to load from new microcode blob which I thought >was one of the objectives behind this new feature.
You load a new blob the usual way: echo 1 > ...
This is the "unusual" way where you reload an already loaded revision only.
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