Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/microcode/amd: Do not overwrite specific patch levels

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 01 Jul 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Certain patch levels supplied by the BIOS should not be upgraded and
> overwritten by the microcode loader because doing so leaves the system
> dead in the water.
> 
> The two below provide for filtering out those levels and avoiding the
> update, thereby making those patch levels final.

Is there any way to notify the user that 'processor microcode updates are
not available on this system except through a firmware update' ?

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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