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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode upd

To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:11:56 -0200
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > <scratches his head>
> > You are still using the microcode API (the existing one) to
> > program the CPUs right? It is just that you are fetching the images
> > much much earlier than it currently is done?
> > 
> 
> No, the goal is to ditch the existing API and load the CPUs very early
> in the start path.

And how do we apply new microcode at runtime?  A new API?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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