Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/microcode/amd: Do not overwrite specific patch levels

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Thu Jul 09 2015 - 11:03:58 EST


On Wed, 01 Jul 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Certain patch levels supplied by the BIOS should not be upgraded and
> overwritten by the microcode loader because doing so leaves the system
> dead in the water.
>
> The two below provide for filtering out those levels and avoiding the
> update, thereby making those patch levels final.

Is there any way to notify the user that 'processor microcode updates are
not available on this system except through a firmware update' ?

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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