Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts."): > On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 16:39 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If $c{prop} is undef, the logm will produce a warning. Maybe you want > > //'' somewhere. > > I think that was a stray wip debug thing, I could

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 16:39 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 > test hosts."): > > Both Xen and Linux support extracting a microcode update from an > > initramfs early during boot. This requires prepending a suitable > > uncompres

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts."): > Both Xen and Linux support extracting a microcode update from an > initramfs early during boot. This requires prepending a suitable > uncompressed cpio archive containing the necessary files to the > initrd.

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 12:18 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 11.06.15 at 12:52, wrote: > > Both Xen and Linux support extracting a microcode update from an > > initramfs early during boot. This requires prepending a suitable > > uncompressed cpio archive containing the necessary files to the > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-11 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 11.06.15 at 12:52, wrote: > Both Xen and Linux support extracting a microcode update from an > initramfs early during boot. This requires prepending a suitable > uncompressed cpio archive containing the necessary files to the > initrd. > > Xen also supports loading the microcode cpio from

[Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] Arrange to upgrade microcode on x86 test hosts.

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Campbell
Both Xen and Linux support extracting a microcode update from an initramfs early during boot. This requires prepending a suitable uncompressed cpio archive containing the necessary files to the initrd. Xen also supports loading the microcode cpio from any multiboot module, but for in order to allo