Re: [PATCH v2 02/20] x86, microcode: Use common get_ramdisk_image()

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 10:44:29PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Use common get_ramdisk_image() to get ramdisk start phys address.
>>
>> We need this to get correct ramdisk adress for 64bit bzImage that
>> initrd can be loaded above 4G by kexec-tools.
>
> Is this a bug fix?  Can it actually happen?

Yes, it could happen.
When second kernel have early microcode updating support, and it would search
wrong wrong place for ramdisk.

Thanks

Yinghai
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