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

[Nix]

On 20 Jun 2012, Borislav Petkov uttered the following:
> I know, right. Whose idea was it to do it like that I don't know.
> AFAICT, Intel delivers ucode as a single blob too, so why split it? The
> driver picks out the right blob anyway.

Only if supplied over the old interface. Over the new interface,
we just see

    microcode: error! Bad data in microcode data file

in the log. So clearly the driver doesn't know how to split up the
microcode.bin that Intel provides, and (until Henrique's iucode-tool or
something like it becomes ubiquitous) the old interface, and
microcode_ctl, cannot be removed.

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