Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xendom0

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/12/2011 03:27 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The current scheme has worked pretty well so far; there doesn't seem to
> be a huge concern about it.  Have there been actual observed failures
> with the current mechanism, or is the drive to make it earlier driven by
> an aesthetic desire to make it "as it should be"?

Yes, there has.  There is at least one case where we have to print an 
error message saying "update your BIOS" because our current microcode 
update is too late.

	-hpa
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