RE: early microcode: how to disable at runtime?

From: Yu, Fenghua
Date: Thu Sep 04 2014 - 14:37:13 EST


> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@xxxxxxxxx]
> > What I did claim is that it is going to be a far more user-friendly
> > stop gap than the "boot from rescue media" option.
>
> Ok, we have it now and we can use it if needed. All is good.

Quoted comment from commit 65cef1311d5d212fd3d48a43678536dc878ca288:
"...This is useful mostly in debugging situations where we want to turn off microcode
loading, both early from the initrd and late, ...."

In case this comment may cause confusion, I need to confirm that:

The parameter "dis_ucode_ldr" only turns off early microcode loading from the initrd.
It does not trun off loading microcode later during run time.

Thanks.

-Fenghua