Re: Intel laptop: Starting with `maxcpus=1` and then bringing other CPUs online freezes system

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 01:13:27PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> From some other similar reports I've heard this could be related to the ucode
> loading causing a freeze.  I would suggest trying to disable the Intel ucode
> loader with the initramfs as a debugging tactic.

There's a cmdline param for that: "dis_ucode_ldr".

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