Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Add an option to reload microcode even if revision is unchanged

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Sep 05 2019 - 15:50:06 EST


On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:40:44PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> The original description said to load a new microcode file, the content
> could have changed, but revision in the header hasn't increased.

How does the hardware even accept a revision which is the same as the
one already loaded?

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