On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:09:48PM +, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> > Why loading microcode this early is important? Why it is bad to load
> > it at the end of (initial) boot?
> >
> If not loading microcode early, we may hit some issues (e.g. PSE on
> Atom) and disable some CPU features. These issues ca
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> kernel; x86
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode
>
> On 20.12.2012 23:48, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > From: Fenghua Yu
> >
> > The problem in current microcode loading method is that we load a
> microcode way,
> > way too late; ideal
On 20.12.2012 23:48, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> From: Fenghua Yu
>
> The problem in current microcode loading method is that we load a microcode
> way,
> way too late; ideally we should load it before turning paging on. This may
> only
> be practical on 32 bits since we can't get to 64-bit mode witho
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