Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-12-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 10/03/2012 06:13 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 10/02/2012 12:00 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: When he got interrupted did he have any beta patches to dracut that could be posted? To *dracut*? The replacement for mkinitrd.

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-03 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/02/2012 12:00 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> >> When he got interrupted did he have any beta patches to dracut that >> could be posted? >> > > To *dracut*? The replacement for mkinitrd. You know the thing that creates your initram

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 10/02/2012 12:00 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > When he got interrupted did he have any beta patches to dracut that > could be posted? > To *dracut*? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kern

RE: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-02 Thread Yu, Fenghua
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:06 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 10/01/2012 09:27 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > >>> > >>> Hey, > >>> > >>>Any chance of this getting merge for the 3.7 cycle? > >> > >> > >> It is not ready yet

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-02 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:06 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/01/2012 09:27 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>> >>>Any chance of this getting merge for the 3.7 cycle? >> >> >> It is not ready yet: http://marc.info/?l=

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-02 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:11:38AM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > My main interest was getting PEBS events support for perf on Intel SNB > cpus. Loading the microcode at runtime was not going to work. > > However, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I notice today > this is not the case a

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-02 Thread Jamie Gloudon
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 06:39:54AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:37:04PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 06:27:45PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 10/01/2012 09:27 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: Hey, Any chance of this getting merge for the 3.7 cycle? It is not ready yet: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134910582107898 Yes, Fenghua who has been working on it unfortun

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-01 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:37:04PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 06:27:45PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > Any chance of this getting merge for the 3.7 cycle? > > > > It is not read

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-01 Thread Jamie Gloudon
Seems like a better alternative to microcode_ctl which some distros don't contain. Regards, Jamie Gloudon On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 06:27:45PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Any chance of this getting merge for the

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-01 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:11:51PM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > Hey, > > Any chance of this getting merge for the 3.7 cycle? It is not ready yet: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134910582107898 Out of curiosity: why do you nee it? Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-10-01 Thread Jamie Gloudon
Hey, Any chance of this getting merge for the 3.7 cycle? Regards, Jamie Gloudon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FA

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-08-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:51:14AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Not really, but that isn't even Fenghua's fault. Of course it isn't - I was simply pointing out that this is something that should be fixed at some point in time, when someone needs a project over an otherwise eventless weekend :-).

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-08-20 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/20/2012 08:39 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:15:18AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: >> Documentation/x86/earlyucode.txt| 43 +++ >> arch/x86/Kconfig| 22 ++ >> arch/x86/include/asm/cpio.h | 10 + >> arch/x86/include/asm/mic

RE: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-08-20 Thread Yu, Fenghua
; Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:15:18AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > Documentation/x86/earlyucode.txt| 43 +++ > > arch/x86/Kconfig| 22 ++ > > arch/x86/include/asm/cpio.h

Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode

2012-08-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:15:18AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: > Documentation/x86/earlyucode.txt| 43 +++ > arch/x86/Kconfig| 22 ++ > arch/x86/include/asm/cpio.h | 10 + > arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h| 23 ++ > arch/x86/include/asm/mic