Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early updateucode on Intel's CPU

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:07:38PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> BTW, do we really need to update microcode so early?

Yes we do. Normally ucode gets applied by the BIOS - this early approach
is for those cases where OEMs don't release new BIOS anymore but we
still need to apply a ucode patch as early as possible.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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