Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/21/2012 07:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>
>> That is orthogonal.  Anyway, my only concern about the request_firmware
>> interface is that the timing will be inherently wrong.
> 
> Timing? Please elaborate.
> 

The request_firmware will happen as soon as the driver is loaded; with
the early microcode blob scheme the driver will need to be built in and
so the request_firmware will happen, redundantly, immediately...

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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