Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Nov 15 2012 - 16:49:15 EST


On 11/15/2012 01:26 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:

Because it looks like without this patch, some valid microcode updates
would be rejected by the kernel...

Right, patch loading will fail.

I wasn't sure whether stable would be appropriate since this is support
for new HW. OTOH since this would result in loss of functionality one
could consider this a bug.


I already promoted it and will push it into -tip as soon as it passes my smoke tests.

-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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