Re: early microcode: how to disable at runtime?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Sep 01 2014 - 12:35:44 EST


On 08/31/2014 10:13 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 05:11:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>> Probably more like something more like arch/x86/boot/cmdline.c. Maybe
>>> we could even make it sharable.
>>
>> Looks like that would work, yes.
>
> Guys, guys, please relax and check the code first: "dis_ucode_ldr".
>

Yeah. It is an absolutely horrific option name (something like
"noearlyucode" would have been so much nicer; we generally use the no-
prefix and no underscores) but I should have objected to that one much
sooner.

-hpa

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