[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] pvops microcode support for AMD FAM >= 15
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:34:31AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > (trim quote please...) > On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 21:47 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > Do you want to prep a patch that I can stick in my 'microcode' branch? > > .. That I will at some point try to upstream. > > You might want to look back at the archives when Jeremy first tried to > upstream this work, it was a vehement "No" and the resulting thread was > not pretty. > > Now that we have early loading via the hypervisor in 4.2 and Linux is > finally in the process of growing its own early microcode loading > solution I suspect the No would be even firmer. > > It is on xenbits if you want it anyway: > > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git debian/wheezy/microcode Thx. Pulled it in my stable/misc branch. > > About the only argument I can see for continuing to try upstreaming this > stuff is that in > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1583630 Fenghua says: > > Note, however, that Linux users have gotten used to being able > to install a microcode patch in the field without having a > reboot; we support that model too. > > i.e. this is an argument for keeping the previous scheme in parallel, > which I suppose is an argument for supporting the same under Xen (I > don't know if its a good one though. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Campbell > > > All the existing 2.0.x kernels are to buggy for 2.1.x to be the > main goal. > -- Alan Cox > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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