Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Check microcode revision before updating sibling threads

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Feb 18 2018 - 07:47:06 EST



* Raj, Ashok <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:50:53AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Also, more fundamentally, during microcode early testing, isn't it possible for
> > internal iterations of the microcode to have the same revision, but be different?
>
> Atleast we don't do that here. Such debug microcode isn't OS loadable.
> Anything that comes out ready for OS loading, the version will keep moving.

Ok.

Thanks,

Ingo