Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Panic on partial microcode update

From: Nikolay Borisov

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 08:40:00 EST




On 7/24/26 01:42, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
We aim not to set a policy either, but at this point we have become aware
the CPU is in a bad state, so I think at the very least there needs to be
a way for the site manager to configure handling according to their needs,
and I think it should be killing the system by default.


For people who care that much about this, they likely are running huge fleets and already have daemons/agents(sic) which are monitoring dmesg and are taking actions accordingly. So that use case is not lost.