Re: [patch V2 02/37] x86/microcode: Hide the config knob

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Multiple reasons. First, because "a couple more KBs" (concretely, 4637
> bytes in this case) add up across the kernel.

Sure, if it were not really core. But this is core code. This is used on
practically every baremetal x86 machine out there. You have other core
code which is not used on virt either but that doesn't mean we'll axe it
off on virt with a Kconfig option just to save a couple of KBs.

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