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

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 10/12/2011 03:29 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Is that K8 errata 93 or something else?

    J
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