Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xendom0

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/12/2011 04:40 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/12/2011 03:49 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > The stickiest part of all of this is where to leave the microcode so
> > the kernel can get to it way early.  We could use the linked list, but
> > that would mean bootloader enabling; another idea was to stick it as a
> > prefix to the initramfs identified by a signature.
>
> I think it would be easiest for the multiboot case if it were a separate
> file, but I don't feel I'm really up on all the details.

For the multiboot case, yes of course.

Some bootloaders allow initramfs to be concatenated from multiple files; 
unfortunately I'm not sure if Grub ever grew that capability.  Sigh.

	-hpa


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